Comments on: Autonomous Foosball! (plus) http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:58:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jeff http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30322 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:44:22 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30322 Happy Christmas to All!

]]> By: Kman http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30321 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:00:32 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30321 Interesting,,, however this project was done for senior design a few years ago at UIUC. I was in the lab a few days ago and saw almost exactly the same thing – except it used stepper motors.

]]> By: Shabby http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30320 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:55:27 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30320 Informated Article… Appreciated!

]]> By: Groxx http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30319 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:01:13 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30319 Handwashing detection… heh, McDonalds would be screwed. Nobody washes their hands as often as they’re legally required to (a bell goes off every X minutes… and nobody moves).

]]> By: Colin http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30318 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:30:20 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30318 I wonder why they were getting 15fps max at 320×240. My cheap logitech cam will do 28/29 at the same res.

Now they just need to port things over to C++ and use openCV…

]]> By: Leif902 http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30317 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:11:46 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30317 I was recently at GT and will (hopefully) be attending GATech next semester, during a tour of the EE lab I saw this project and was very impressed by it (even though it was not working or even assembled fully at the time).

Congrats, it’s neat to accidentally stumble upon it on this site (Knew what it was as soon as I saw the picture in my feed reader!)

- Leif

]]> By: m4lki3r http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30316 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:10:05 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30316 The webcam was bought with the intention of it being 90fps but was actually 30max and had to be reduced further to 15fps for the resolution they needed. Very nice work given the constraints of mechanics and money!

]]> By: Kevin DeMarco http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30315 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:26:40 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30315 I just graduated from Georgia Tech’s Electrical Engineering program and the senior design class is only a one semester class. You have to present a proposal by the second week of class, followed by a mid-semester review of the project. By the end of finals week you need to demonstrate to the professor the functionality in the proposal and provide a final report. All in one semester. They work you hard at GT.

]]> By: Jim http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30314 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:09:38 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30314 ILL

]]> By: norm http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30313 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:16:14 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30313 those are only proposals as far as i can see.. so this means the projects are to be completed within the following semester? if so, there are some badass proposals there and i would love to see what they come up with.. gatech is a great school and i’m sure they will find a way to impress..

]]> By: yuzo http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30312 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:22:44 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30312 Nice hack~!

I’d figure the fps rate of the webcam has to be bloody high. I couldn’t even see where the ball was heading when I started playing.

]]> By: dax http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30311 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:58:36 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30311 I don’t feel justified in commenting about the mechanical performance of the setup, as they address those concerns (mostly by the fact that they aren’t mechanical students :P). As a whole, that’s pretty inspirational.

]]> By: Kaputzke http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30310 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:35:12 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30310 You may also check out this professional kickrobot:
http://www.f07.fh-koeln.de/fakultaet/personen/professoren/jens.krah/00085/

]]> By: wirehead http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30309 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:43:02 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30309 At last! Someone who plays foosball worse than me.

Still neat.

]]> By: Crash http://hackaday.com/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/comment-page-1/#comment-30308 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:42:11 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/12/12/autonomous-foosball-plus/#comment-30308 This is a nice hack. More like this.

It would be greatly improved if he were to use faster/stronger stepper motors instead of small servos, and build the control into the table rather than doubling the size.

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