Digicue worth it?

nataddrho said:
I'm working on a cue ball that tells you where your tip landed. I can barely get the prototype to work, but imagine if it eventually worked well enough to become a product.
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Lol, that's just what I needed. To charge my cue ball before my match!
:D
 
shinobi said:
All you would really need there is a training ball with lots of lines or numbers and such, and a chalk that does a great job of leaving a mark on the ball (but cleans easily).

Work on the chalk instead :grin-square:
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But then you have to line it up with the shot line on every shot.
 
Shinobi.......the chalk marks on the cue training ball do not tell you if your cue stroke remained straight
the entire time after striking the cue ball until your actually finished your stroke. Chalk marks only tell
you the initial contact point on the cue ball and help but are a far cry from obtaining meaningful feedback.
 
nataddrho said:
No, my idea is 100 percent hands free. No need to touch the cue ball ever. It's electronic.
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I got that. I was saying you'd have to realign it every shot if you were just using a rempe training ball.

How much of a bribe would it take for you to add a remote control and a "miss" mode that swerves the cue off line when a button is pressed? Asking for a friend ;)
 
jtaylor996 said:
I got that. I was saying you'd have to realign it every shot if you were just using a rempe training ball.

How much of a bribe would it take for you to add a remote control and a "miss" mode that swerves the cue off line when a button is pressed? Asking for a friend ;)
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I get that you are joking, but to answer seriously, this is what it would take...

You would need an internally mounted gyroscopic motor with it's own energy dense power source, that is easily charged. Wireless connectivity isn't a big challenge because the permittivity of phenolic resin is acceptable. Additionally you need an accurate IMU that is both mechanically and electrically shock and vibration resistant. The motor assembly must be self aligning to the gravity vector under any body rotation so that it can use processive forces to alter the rolling trajectory of the ball. You would need a charging system as well, and the entire thing needs to withstand aa storage temperature of 120c as the resin cures (or be potted by some other means with epoxy). All of this still needs to match a normal balls moment of inertia, weight and center of gravity... Good luck!!!

Or... Hope your friend is deaf and use a leaf blower.
 
jtaylor996 said:
I got that. I was saying you'd have to realign it every shot if you were just using a rempe training ball.

How much of a bribe would it take for you to add a remote control and a "miss" mode that swerves the cue off line when a button is pressed? Asking for a friend ;)
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There's a number of remote controlled spheres out in gadget land, I suppose one could be made like a cue ball, here's a video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S5lUDvlu3A
 
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