YouTuber invents robotic basketball hoop with facial recognition to ensure people never miss

Engineer and YouTuber Shane Wighton has made a basketball hoop that uses a Microsoft Kinect and facial recognition in order to build a basketball hoop that means the shooter never misses. On the YouTube channel Stuff Made Here, Wighton explains that the backboard is tracking the information in the room, including the ball and its trajectory. With that information, the backboard can calculate where it needs to move in order to ensure the ball gets into the hoop. Since there are only 600 milliseconds (a thousandth of a second) between when the ball is thrown and when it hits the backboard, the calculations need to be made in an incredibly short amount of time. Therefore, Wighton said, when designing the board he had to prioritise fast movement.