A Motorized Badminton Racket Spins Two Rackets to Help Beat a Friend
Why Practice When You Can Build a Motorized Badminton Racket?
To beat a friend who keeps winning at badminton, Jack Saito built a motorized racket that spins rapidly to hit shuttlecocks. A single racket vibrated too violently, so he mounted a second one on the opposite side to balance the mechanism. Powered by an electric-skateboard motor and batteries carried in a backpack, it returned shots on court, but ran out of power before he could win.
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Instead of practicing his swing, he engineered a spinning pair of rackets and a backpack power supply. The sporting equipment is starting to look like factory machinery.