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In reviewing Kenneth Branagh’s film Thor, the A.O. Scott introduced the next vital conundrum: if a film goals at mediocrity and achieves it, is the film a hit? Famously (ish), Scott opined “This film isn’t distinctively dangerous, it’s axiomatically dangerous.” With all due respect to the maker of the next venture, we recommend that the identical could also be mentioned of any try to create a robotic whose unique function is to play beer pong. Right here’s extra from inconceivable42 by way of hackester.io:

In April of 2021 I used to be in search of a venture to spend my ample quantity of free time on. For some motive a beer pong enjoying robotic popped into my head. At a excessive degree I envisioned a robotic that might use a digital camera to seek out cups and hearth a ping pong ball at mentioned cups. I made a decision a Raspberry Pi could be used because the “mind” and would deal with the picture processing. The Raspberry Pi would inform an Arduino how one can orientate the firing mechanism. Having a 3D printer I deliberate to print a majority of the firing mechanism. Over the following 12 months I might spend my time designing, testing, and redesigning varied features of the robotic in hopes of bettering its accuracy. I’m penning this to doc the entire effort I put into to the venture and in hopes of it serving to another person.

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