Wighton, a tech-savvy engineer with an impressive YouTube presence, built his smart hoop out of aluminum, foam and fiber glass to make it lightweight enough to move at top speed. He then rigged it to a pulley system and six electric motors for a combined horsepower of 50.
Add in a foam basketball embedded with spherical markers and some tracking software and viola!, you’ve got a no-miss setup. Wighton used OptiTrack motion capture cameras to track both the ball and the hoop. The hoop moves at 100 miles per hour, though Wighton noted that it technically could be ramped up all the way to 250 mph, although that would rip all the pulleys out of the wall.
