Pneumatic cue-stick tester

from: http://video_demos.colostate.edu

Prototype mechanical tester used to measure the amount of squirt produced by a cue stick for a given amount of tip offset.

Designed and built by mechanical engineering students for a junior-level mechatronics course at Colorado State University.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• billiards
• pool
• cue
• stick
• squirt
• robot
• tester
• English
• tip

[shadowspain101]

so..... r u trying to make pool more complicated to play?

[DrDaveBilliards]

@shadowspain101

No.

[WilliamFuentesDotCom]

Both tables are moving in this demo, Though the ball is getting in the hole, I think for a much more solid demonstration, along with a crisp clean hit and roll, the foundation of both table should be solid. The Table with Pneumatic cue-stick tester should be Marble thru-an-thru-legs, table-surface etc. Everything involved in this demo-execution shouldn't be wobbly...

[DrDaveBilliards]

Good points.

The system was just a prototype. It was not useful for taking accurate measurements.

Dr. Dave

[hackerbes1990]

hot!

[GetMeThere1]

Breadboards?!?!?! These days it's easy to design and print a single circuit board, even for testing! Breadboards can add all sorts of crazy capacitance effects that will drastically change in a final circuit.

One day I intend to build a "robostroke" system to check (and hopefully disprove) any aspect of "stroke magic." A key element of it will be a VARIETY of propulsion mechanisms that can test a variety of different ways to apply cue velocities and accelerations.

[tazztt1]

what is this machine 'testing' about the cue stick please?

[loopycaleb]

Yes they should have done it on a regulation pool table made of slate instead of wood. But as Dr. Dave said it is just a prototype. :)

[RObOtWarS4Eva]

COOL? (WTF)

[sudoku28]

its amazing how it takes all that equipment to replace a human...so very complex...