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  1. yaredY

    Portable Basketball Hoop (Fixings? , How to keep it upright?) - ANY HELP IS MASSIVELY APPRECIATED

    IRstuff I know they have wheels or can be carried but I want you to be able to take this product to the park and back. Going to the park lugging the traditional tall, giant hoop down the road for 15-20 mins every time you want to play would be annoying and look weird to bystanders. I want to...
  2. yaredY

    Portable Basketball Hoop (Fixings? , How to keep it upright?) - ANY HELP IS MASSIVELY APPRECIATED

    BAretired I want to be able to make the hoop portable so it can be taken to a park or something. These ones are not made to be portable or carried, but are made to be used in a driveway.
  3. yaredY

    Portable Basketball Hoop (Fixings? , How to keep it upright?) - ANY HELP IS MASSIVELY APPRECIATED

    I don't intend to have the user be able to dunk and I will make that very clear to them. The structure only needs to be able to support the force of a basketball. Thanks for suggesting the stabilisation "feet", I can try incorporate that. Do you think this will be possible with this newfound...
  4. yaredY

    Portable Basketball Hoop (Fixings? , How to keep it upright?) - ANY HELP IS MASSIVELY APPRECIATED

    Also, I forgot to add ,Artisi, I don't know what you meant when you mentioned a sky-hook. Are you referring to the basketball move haha?
  5. yaredY

    Portable Basketball Hoop (Fixings? , How to keep it upright?) - ANY HELP IS MASSIVELY APPRECIATED

    drawoh & MacGyverS2000 I want this basketball hoop to be fully portable so it can be taken to your local park, so I don't want to be using water/sand. MacGyver, I love the suggestion of using wheels, I had completely neglected this idea and would give me more freedom for the weight problem I was...
  6. yaredY

    Portable Basketball Hoop (Fixings? , How to keep it upright?) - ANY HELP IS MASSIVELY APPRECIATED

    Hey engineers! For a school project, we were given freedom to build anything we would like and I have chosen to try to design and create a portable basketball hoop (the whole thing: rim, net, backboard, post). It would be placed against a wall. Ideally, I would like it to be lightweight and...

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