[sudo-discuss] stepper motor foosball?

[Hol Gaskill]

i disagree with this sentiment 100%

it's much easier to get a project moving if someone has already tried and documented a similar project.  what's the harm in looking?  we all stand on the shoulders of giants - seeing a run through of how someone has already completed the basic steps of a project that may use some of the same principles and learning from the mistakes/efforts of others frees your limited time up for additional awesomeness in the design, and can help avoid late-night-almost-finished-but-still-fruitlessly-debugging, sanity-destroying-once-you-realize-how-much-time-you-just-wasted pitfalls.


May 14, 2013 11:59:48 PM, romy at snowyla.com wrote:
I don't bother spending too much time looking at others projects anymore... Wastes your time and is a sure fire way to doom creating your own projects 
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Trust me on this one I've learned this from bitter experience 

Just focus on making your own stuff ... 

On May 14, 2013 11:41 PM, "rusty lindgren" rustylindgren at gmail.com> wrote:
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good point. 
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>On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Anthony Di Franco di.franco at gmail.com> wrote:
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Maybe theirs is just the beginning.

On May 14, 2013 10:41 PM, "rusty lindgren" rustylindgren at gmail.com> wrote:
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Oh man, 
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>Someone beat me to the punch!
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>On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Anthony Di Franco di.franco at gmail.com> wrote:
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>http://www.geekologie.com/2007/12/robotic-foosball-table-built-f.php
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>On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:04 PM, rusty lindgren rustylindgren at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Holy-Rusted-Metal, Bat-Man!
>I could dig this.  Would be the coolest thing ever!
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>On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer patrikd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Install a cheap webcam in the head of each foosball "player", let people log in to each player online, and have their controls vote for how their entire row should move. First-person foosball!  :-D
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>Actually, just building a webcam with a fisheye lens into the head of the goalie would be lots of fun by itself. 
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>On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Steve Berl steveberl at gmail.com> wrote:
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>This sounds like fun. Add a Raspberry Pi, a web cam, and openCV, and you have a pretty nice playground.











>-steve
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>On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Anthony Di Franco di.franco at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Sounds like a good game AI problem too.
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>On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:26 PM, rusty lindgren rustylindgren at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Watching this video, it seems to me that we could do an automated foosball game if we had some basic gearing going both ways. 














>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO4IyPg0U9s


>Sounds fun, right? 
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