Getting a drone to play ping pong. More specifically using a tiny indoor quad to intercept a ping pong ball off the bounce. While I doubt it will be able to re

Getting a drone to play ping pong. More specifically using a tiny indoor quad to intercept a ping pong ball off the bounce. While I doubt it will be able to return the ball reliably, it could be used for beer-pong to defend your cups from a bounce shot. The high-level idea is that something like Reinforcement-learning / openAI trained on a physics simulator should then be able to learn how to inctercept the ball, then be applied to the drone IRL. Right now I'm stuck on the hardware hacks: using an arudino to input control commands into a the hand-held controller, and using a mirror on the table to get a 3d position on the drone/ball. Reply if you're interested, have ideas.