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I've wondered if it is possible to make a basketball hoop where the ball always goes in. Imagine throwing a ball and if it hits the backboard it somehow gets directed into the hoop. Thanks to physics it isn't quite possible to make ALL possible shots go in though you can make a hoop where the ball goes in a lot more often. In this video I show how I wrote a program to calculate the optical backboard then machined and fabricated it. It worked out better than I was expected so I'm really happy with it!
These videos usually take 100+ hours of work and a lot of money in tools and materials. I've made a patreon if you're interested in supporting the creation of these projects: www.patreon.com/stuffmadehere
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This guy is like 5 different brilliant people put together: an experimental physicist, an applied mathematician, a programmer, an engineer, and a machinist.
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Ah the monte carlo simulation. It's the perfect tool for "I don't want to solve this analytically but will throw a bunch of computing horsepower at it."
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"Hey man, am I going crazy or does your hoop look a bit... warped?"
"Nah man, just your imagination"
Proceeds to win every basketball game
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“A backboard that always makes the ball go through the hoop”
Me: Misses the backboard
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Stuff Made Here: Makes a basketball hoop that never misses.
Carnivals: Makes basketball hoops that always miss.
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When I started watching your videos, I thought you must be a veteran YouTuber, like Vsauce or Veritasium. When I found out that you managed to get 2million+ subscribers in just under a year, it made me really happy. The YouTube, as a whole, is deteriorating. We need more success stories like you.
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Others have mentioned it in part, but I looked it up since I've used it/been around it so much - the Monte Carlo method is just a reference to using inputs with randomness to determine statistical outcomes by just running simulations or the actual experiment until results converge to a reasonable significance. Name comes from... "In 1946, nuclear weapons physicists at Los Alamos were investigating neutron diffusion in fissionable material. Despite having most of the necessary data, such as the average distance a neutron would travel in a substance before it collided with an atomic nucleus and how much energy the neutron was likely to give off following a collision, the Los Alamos physicists were unable to solve the problem using conventional, deterministic mathematical methods. Ulam proposed using random experiments. [...] Being secret, the work of von Neumann and Ulam required a code name. A colleague of von Neumann and Ulam, Nicholas Metropolis, suggested using the name Monte Carlo, which refers to the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco where Ulam's uncle would borrow money from relatives to gamble." - Wikipedia, "Monte Carlo Method",
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They should put this into a carnival and say "miss a shot and win a prize!"
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I came here to be entertained, but instead i got a bachelor's degree of engineering
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I really love how you anticipate questions and answer the questions that I'm already thinking, especially around 7:45 (for me). Great channel, great work.
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i’m coming back here after seeing his moving basketball hoop that never misses. crazy how far this guy has come
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Sometimes I get nervous on airplanes
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“You can’t miss with this hoop, it’s impossible.”
Me: Observe
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Awesome. I love the computational side of these projects.
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It is amazing that we live in an era where a person can do something as complicated and requiring all this computing power for no apparent practical reason.
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This guy has the voice and skills of someone that hacks into a bank, steals millions and then settles in a cabin in the woods
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Absolutely genius how you figured out the curve, loved the project. You got me now thinking about a project for you.
Keep up the fascinating work!
✌️😎👍
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As an engineering student, this is an excellent channel for me to make up the practical gap in our course!
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Trey’s gonna be happy, he’s got his basketball game tomorrow
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@ericisawesome476
4 years ago
You legitimately need to patent this design and find a company that can mass produce it. I’d buy one, looks fun as hell
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