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An automatic pool playing robot – how hard could it be? Turns out harder than I thought. It took me quite a while to work through all the difficulties of this project but when it all finally came together is so worth it. To my surprise the most interesting aspect of this project is using the cue to play real games of pool over the internet. Let me know if you think twitch plays billiards would be worthwhile…

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  3. Wow and he still said "I am an idiot". nah bro you are a hell of dedicated engineer ? and great person.

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  6. I can’t tell if this guy is average intelligence and I’m just an ape, or if he’s incredibly smart and I’m just an ape.

  8. COOL!! On one of the scenes where you had the table and network of paths for the balls I thought the direction this was taking was one shot and all balls down. Maybe that's version 10.0, lol. Keep it going. Cheers, Dan.

  9. playing pool remotely, that's some big brain futuristic business idea right there

  10. MadeStuffHere: I found some math issues that may be causing problems.
    * MISSES SHOT ****
    MadeStuffHere: You know what …….
    …
    .. math is useless.

    I love this guys' comedy

  12. What if you fuse your chainsaw robot with this pool robot ? I mean this days with social distance, could be fun

  16. This demonstration reaffirms my faith that there are still a handful of humans on the planet that are brilliant.

  17. He makes projects in months that most people work for a lifetime to complete.

  19. Who downvotes videos like this? I don't get it. Some folks must be super angry inside.

  20. go to 9:10 and look at your stupid ass UI xD. your program assumes the qball has 0 radius. how on earth did you not spot that before your started building it? XD

  22. Can you share this software so we can use it on 8 ball games online, it seems so interesting

  24. You are amazing. I wonder what types of courses you took to get where you are now.

  25. Stuff made here in 2030 be like: I made a soccer ball the kicks for you and you cant miss!

  26. If someone sees this guy on the street they would think he’s just another guy… which he is but also a fricken genius

  27. Attach the stick on robo arm and play human vs Robot

  28. You should do an automated sail for a Hobie Cat or something of the sort!

  30. The guy just said he is an idiot bro I don’t even know what you doin. Keep it up

  32. Should have tried this on a snooker table American pool tables could be cleared by a blind man, still very impressive I’m sure it would still work

  33. You should two glasses mounted cameras, one on each side, then you coulld take the system anywhere! You wouldnt be able to put the markers on the corners of the table, so you would have to compensate for the perspective. Might require walking around the table a bit before each shot. Put a laser pointer on the cue to train you where to hit with a normal cue. Then you need an algorithm to drink the beer and trash talk the opponent until they cave.
    You glossed over how you controlled the force with which the cue hit the ball. How was that calculated and accomplished?

  38. Well the robot is amazing but may be to costly and complex. The camera system that shows you where to hit could be a great billiards trainer. People would pay ? for that son!

  40. Human error is part of the beauty of the game. Humans make it one of the hardest sports to master

  42. Why not place the stick on rails around the table so that it can be remotely or A.I. controlled?

  44. Program that works in conjunction with the Q where the camera finds the spot on the ball you need to hit for it to go in which in turn communicates with the Q to mimick the position it would need to be to hit the spot perfectly

  45. The very last bit of the project failed though "convince wife that robotic cue victory is equivalent to normal victory, honor-wise"… that may take some more years of debugging

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