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Automatic Bullseye, MOVING Dartboard

Mark Rober shows an automatic bullseye dartboard that tracks a thrown dart with motion capture and moves in real time so it always hits the center. He spent over three years on the project.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN calls it a great, impressive engineering project involving real-time trajectory calculation.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Mark Rober
Topic
engineering demo
Format
demo
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2017–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • The actual video is by Mark Rober and man you gotta check out his YouTube channel [1]. I've been in a technical slump here recently and watching his videos totally re-energized me. He reminded me how great it feels to explore, build, and solve problems. …

    jonathanfoster on Hacker News · 2017-11
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  • This is an an awesome project... the kinda stuff I wish I had more time to hack away at... In the video he mentions his automatic bullseye dartboard project... even more impressive than this glitter machine IMHO: [VIDEO] Calculating a projectile's trajectory in realtime.... wouldn't …

    anonu on Hacker News · 2018-12
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