Recent content by nataddrho

I see. I would not be able to compete with what we currently expect prices to be for consumer electronics. I don't think I could produce and sell the clock for less than $250, and even that misses 50% profit margin. But I think people are starting to learn about the huge cost competition...

A game clock requires the purchase of a game clock. An electronic cue ball requires the purchase of a cue ball. It depends on what experience customers want. Both "quiet tradition" and "sports arena" are valid preferences. I like both. If people want option 2 then I'll make it for them, so...

More so for pool, but less possible with carom, especially if all three balls are DigiBalls and all monitored by the shot clock. At the very least, since 95% of pool shots end with the cue ball stopping last, it would help train players to keep a faster pace which should carry over into the 5%...

What you have described is a traditional shot clock that does not take advantage of the benefits of an electronic cue ball. It wouldn’t be hands free and automatic.

No. I think this will be my last side project involving it until it does get released, because I am now just making stuff as I am waiting. Maybe I can start working on other ideas in the meantime.

I've been using 30 seconds, and as I mentioned in the video, it actually helped me slow down and take more time to think, which is the exact opposite of what I thought would happen. This is why I spend the time to build things because what arises out of them I can't for-see with just discussion.

The only solutions to this that I can think of are both ridiculous and brilliant. 1. A triangular template that is suspended by strings from the ceiling on top of the balls instead of under the balls. The gravity provides constant inward pressure and forces the rack tight. Not too heavy though...

I can put pins in the corners and make the "pockets" as loose or as tight as I want :) The ball just never disappears. One ball one pocket is fun on a carom table with pins in two corners.

Yes this is indeed a limitation. More so in pool, less so in carom. I am thinking that maybe having an automatic shot clock / ref makes up for this flaw.

It is a home/club setting novelty, and doesn't solve the problem of moving object balls while the cue ball has come to rest first. You might lose a few seconds in that case. However it may be more accurate at keeping track of time since the shot trigger is consistent and fast (tenth's of...

An automatic hands free shot clock. Maybe this will solve the slow shooting problem once and for all. What do you think? Automatic Shot Clock for Billiards

Two words... pocket speed.

That would be the Boylston Building downtown near the Chinatown T stop. I know exactly where that is. They occupied parts of the second, fourth and fifth floors. By the way this is the table I ended up buying.

It is a muscle group that is engaged in wrist movement stabilization.

Use 100W-equivalent LED bulbs, which means 1,500 lumens, and generate only 16 watts. Also you are probably breaking with your shoulder (pectorals and some bicep muscles) and not your hand (supinator and abductors) which give you that acceleration and snap. For the supinator think of the force...