Team members:
- Kaylee Bush
- Mike Killian
- Ian Rees
- Andy Rogowski
- Chris Tooley
Our project is a pool cue with embedded sensors to measure the displacement of the cue as a stroke is being made. The sensors will relay the data to a receiver wirelessly and the receiver will then run calculations on the data. The receiver will pass on the results of the calculations to a computer which will display the player's stroke on screen.
The receiver will contain a video camera and data processing capabilities. The video data will be of the player's stroke and sent to the computer in sync with the pool que data to be viewed side by side. The processing capabilities will be memory and a processor as well as a serial/Bluetooth link to receive data from the pool que. The processor will then run computations to determine the pitch, yaw, roll, and force of the stroke and transmit that along with the video to the computer.
The computer will display the video of the player stroking and the computed pool que data to give 3-D visual feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of the player's stroke. Our project is designed as a teaching aid to allow a player to become a better pool player by being able to visualize the errors in his or her stroke thus allowing them to be corrected. As none of us are master pool players, we will leave the analysis portion of the stroke to the individual user with an option to include professional analysis in a future revision.