Automatic Bullseye, MOVING Dartboard

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Published 2017-03-21
I have been working on this board for over 3 years. Super pumped to finally share it with all y'all.

Here is a link to some of the software we wrote: www.dropbox.com/s/rlmhdjoqzyumme1/darts.zip?dl=0

MUSIC-
0:08- I'm so- Andrew Applepie- www.andrewapplepie.com/
0:37- Cereal Killa- Blue Wednesday - soundcloud.com/bluewednesday/
3:49- Berlin- Andrew Applepie- www.andrewapplepie.com/
5:41- Special song written just fo my bad self- Lincoln Hoppe, lincolnhoppe.com/
6:26- Too Happy to be cool by Notebreak- soundcloud.com/notebreak/dubstep-too-happy-to-be-c…

Summary: 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 (SPOILER ALERT: they liked it)


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All Comments (20)
  • “I suck at darts but I’m really good at engineering, so that means I’m actually really good at darts” Flawless logic
  • @Wargo2k
    Every teenager: Why do we to learn y=mx+b? We won’t need it anyway. Mark Rober: On the contrary.
  • Mark: This took us 3 freaking YEARS, and it gives you an automatic bullseye! Me, trying to keep it in: triple 20 is better, triple 20 is better...
  • @Giant_Dwarff
    4:20 What your parents think you did to fix the internet when you just restart the router...
  • @loquicraft
    Random darts fact: the most points you can get isn't actually the center (50), it's the triple 20 (60), which is the small red part of the 20 slice
  • @LoveYou-lc5kv
    I just admire the fact that someone out there understands exactly what he’s saying’ and you should appreciate the fact that someone like me is only hearing a bunch of words but still equally enjoying the video.
  • @user-ks3nc3qb6t
    lol in the beginning when the song said, "I'm so I'm so I'm so..." I thought it was gonna say 'I'm so I'm so I'm so bad at darts."
  • @brycewilke3906
    Should get professional dart players to try it to see how little the board moves
  • @cameroncook6643
    I love how when this video came out I had like zero understanding of how any of this works and now after spending years watching this man's content do I understand it.
  • @mleleuterio
    1990: we'll have flying cars in the future. 2021: perfect-bullseye-dart-inator
  • @blueberry847
    This is where you use that math class you said was useless
  • @AngelTheCat792
    Mark never fails to rip me apart limb by limb while I scream in agony and my consusness slowly fades away.