Rober, who has worked at NASA JPL for 9 years, founded a company called Digital Dudz, and produced many scientific videos, has been working on the Automatic Bullseye Dartboard for three years with ...

NASA's DART hit the bullseye. The Italian Space Agency's LICIACube took this image of the DART spacecraft impacting the tiny moonlet Dimorphos, circling Didymos, September 26, 2022. ASI/NASA ...

DART crashed into the moonlet at 14,000 mph, or just under four miles per second. DART livestreamed its own demise, dispatching closer and closer images of the surface of Dimorphos as it crashed.

One kind of dart will always hit the bullseye, while the other will literally never hit the board, as the board will automatically move itself out of the way for the ultimate troll job.

In fairness, what [Mark Rober] started three years ago seemed like a pretty simple task. He wanted to build a rig to move the dartboard’s bullseye to meet the predicted impact of any throw.

The second challenge was to figure out how to get the dartboard to move so the bullseye would be in the location where the dark landed. This positioning also has to happen within 200 milliseconds.

A dartboard that moves to wherever you throw for a bullseye every time: it sounds like something one might find in a magical tavern in a Harry Potter novel. But it's real, because what is better ...

Tech News Dartboard Lets You Score a Boobie Bullseye By Charlie White Published November 13, 2007 | Comments (0) 𝕏 ...