Article 4WR1V Dartboard moves to ensure perfect shot every time

Dartboard moves to ensure perfect shot every time

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Rob Beschizza
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Mark Rober is bad at darts, but he still gets perfect scores, because he's good at engineering.

I fulfilled a 3 year long dream to create a dartboard where you get a bullseye every time thanks to some engineering. Basically, you throw a dart and then a Vicon motion capture system tracks the dart in the air. We use those x,y,z positions in matlab to predict where the dart will land using some regression analysis. Once we know where it will land, we move the board to the right spot using 6 stepper motors that attach to the back of the board using fishing line. All of this happens in 400ms or so. Then we took it to a bar to see what people would think of it

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