Nailing the perfect trick shot can take hours, and sometimes days, of dedication.

There is no time like the present, and if I had spent half as much time designing a strange trick shot machine as I have scrolling through Netflix, it may have been my contraption featured below.

Alas, it is not, and we have the YouTube account Creezy to thank for what is a superb combination of engineering nous and creativity.

Here’s the write-up:

This outdoor Rube Goldberg machine goes around my entire yard, and swishes a basketball shot after 70 steps. This video was filmed in one take, meaning there are absolutely no hidden cuts or edits. The machine took a month to build and another month to successfully work, so please share this with anyone who needs some entertainment during these strange times!

A Rube Goldberg machine is intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overly complicated way and is named after an American cartoonist and inventor.

I reckon that’s all the background you need for this to make sens

[source:creezy]