Arduino powers basketball score tracker

We’ve had a few smart sporting elements on Gadget Master – smart football, smart golf club, smart tennis raquet, smart cricket ball – well, how about a smart basketball net?

These Gadget Masters have shown it’s possible to start tracking your basketball score with an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense.

Basically, a group of Slovenian students at the University of Ljubljan have created the prototype edge ML-powered device, designed to be hung from the net.

And it is smart because there is some learning involved. They collected more than 130 accelerometer samples, via the Nano. They would label them as either a ‘miss’ or a ‘score’ or ‘nothing’ within the Edge Impulse Studio and trained a classification model. Apparently, they recorded an accuracy of 84.6% on real-world data.

Think of it as Basketball IoT, and the Nano’s onboard BLE server is used to transmit the score to a phone running the associated app.

Thanks to the Arduino Team for highlighting this one, and you can find the full project on Hackster.io., where you can see the code and more details of the model testing results.

You can check out the system briefly in action below: