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Creating a Disc Golf picker upper
- glasss 3y agoThis problem was partially involved in the 2013 season of the FIRST Robotics Competition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Ascent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Ascent
- FlipFloopDev 3y agoIf only you told me this back in September! I'll be looking at the FRC teams solutions from back then! Thanks!
- vyrotek 3y agoHa! When I saw their bot I immediately thought of my days on FRC and knew there were probably some bots that solved this with a past game. For those curious about that specific game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa5MGEZNrf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa5MGEZNrf0 One of the Finals matches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ0VNzIvHx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ0VNzIvHx0
- O5vYtytb 3y agoAs an "ultimate" (frisbee) player, calling a game based on disc golf "ultimate ascent" makes me cringe a bit! I can't tell you how many people mistake ultimate for disc golf.
- sixQuarks 3y agoHere's a disc golf app idea: Film yourself in slow motion from front and back angles throwing a disc, upload the video to the app. App then overlays you with different pros so you can see what you're doing right and wrong. You can compare angles of arms, torso, etc. I would pay for an app like this.
- mathgeek 3y agoI would imagine the tech is already there to capture joint motion for a really in-depth analysis. Grand idea.
- sailfast 3y agoHighly recommend OnForm for this. You can download pro slow motion videos and put them next to you side by side.
- __mharrison__ 3y agoUltimate players would like this too...
- asmosoinio 3y agoWe did something similar for regular golf at Nokia, released 2006: http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/item/nokia_n93_golf_edition_pro_session_golf.php http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/item/nokia_n93_golf_e... Haven't looked much at the market since, but I would guess generic sports video "record+compare" tools would be available nowadays in app stores? Back on 2006 that video handling was quite a tech feat, nowadays should be straight forward on any modern phone.
- alkonaut 3y agoThis is a great idea. Single-video pose estimation has just become decent hasn't it? I guess the problem is the "matching" of the two pose animations to give the minimum difference.
- tantalor 3y ago> the gear broke ... bad quality wood ... material was MDF Try something better? > It's vital to use good plywood for the gears. Ordinary spruce or fir plywood has layers that are too coarse, and the wood is not strong enough. But the Baltic birch plywood, with thin birch layers throughout, makes for an excellent material https://woodgears.ca/gear/howto.html https://woodgears.ca/gear/howto.html
- FlipFloopDev 3y agoyeah we then used 2 1/8th aluminum pieces stacked on top of each other (because we didn't have 1/4 inch)
- pavel_lishin 3y agoUnrelated to the topic, but I love the little bubble effect when I click on the page.
- FlipFloopDev 3y agoHere is where it's from: https://mojs.github.io/tutorials/burst/#use-cases https://mojs.github.io/tutorials/burst/#use-cases
- sailfast 3y agoI love disc golf. My interests have truly intersected on this post. In addition to clinics and practice ranges, this would be useful for folks that throw a lot in the field if it’s made a bit smaller and at a lower price point. I often throw 50-70 discs at a time and they’re annoying to pick up :)
- FlipFloopDev 3y agoDo you know how to do woodworking? You can probably build it from scratch... we pushed it by hand at first... but I think you can make a bike/ATV mountable version (and I mean bicycle)
- sailfast 3y agoInteresting! Good point. Might give it a shot :)
- aidenn0 3y agoAuthor's about page says they don't know the English name for Escalopes de veau à la milanaise. It is commonly known as just "Veal Milanese" or occasionally "Veal alla Milanese" in English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veal_milanese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veal_milanese
- toyg 3y agoScrew anglicization! That's a goddamn cotoletta, it ain't that hard to pronounce... (It's better alla bolognese though, with plenty of cheese and ham to increase your heart-attack chances.)
- tipiirai 3y agoDisc golf is so much fun! I'm in Finland and the ground is full of snow, and I'm still going to skip the work today and go to the forest throwing.
- mock-possum 3y agoShit I’ve never played in the snow, seems like it’d be real easy to lose your discs!
- alkonaut 3y agoYou tape a meter long piece of easily visible string to the middle of the disc underside. (e.g. that shiny packet-wrap thing you use for christmas presents). Then your disc will be under the snow but at the end of the string.
- jwsteigerwalt 3y agoHe’s a hell of an engineer.