Creating a Disc Golf picker upper
victorguyard.comI 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 :)
Do 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)
Interesting! Good point. Might give it a shot :)
Author'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.
Screw 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.)
I'm sure there are some Austrian's rolling their eyes at Italians saying Wiener Schnitzel should be called cotoletta.
Maybe so, but if Milano or Bologna are explicitly referenced, surely the Italian word should be used.
Here'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.
We did something similar for regular golf at Nokia, released 2006: 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.
Highly recommend OnForm for this. You can download pro slow motion videos and put them next to you side by side.
I would imagine the tech is already there to capture joint motion for a really in-depth analysis. Grand idea.
This 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.
Ultimate players would like this too...
This problem was partially involved in the 2013 season of the FIRST Robotics Competition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Ascent
As 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.
Ha! 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
One of the Finals matches.
If only you told me this back in September! I'll be looking at the FRC teams solutions from back then! Thanks!
Disc 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.
Shit I’ve never played in the snow, seems like it’d be real easy to lose your discs!
You 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.
> 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
yeah we then used 2 1/8th aluminum pieces stacked on top of each other (because we didn't have 1/4 inch)
Unrelated to the topic, but I love the little bubble effect when I click on the page.
Here is where it's from: https://mojs.github.io/tutorials/burst/#use-cases
He’s a hell of an engineer.