Paper Basketball Hoop

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To showcase my love for basketball, I crafted an acrylic hoop that's sturdy enough to avoid tipping during shots and features a rim large enough for paper balls when you're accurate. Two heraldic lions grace the top corners for style. Creating the blueprints in Adobe Illustrator, I used a 15"x11" black acrylic sheet on an Epilog Win64x Engraver for cutting and engraving. A challenge was removing vector lines to cut slots for feet on the backboard support; filling these lines was not advised.