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I wanted to see if I could make myself a better golfer by combining robotic engineering and golf. The result is a robotic club that senses your swing and corrects your shot for distance. It should be possible to correct for slice and hook with some hardware and software upgrades. It also has a cool mode where it can be any iron so no need to carry eleven clubs.
All hail our our robot overlords. I'm looking forward to gen 2 and doing more science on how good a robot really can make you.
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Introduction to algorithims: amzn.to/2yUUSIN
Planning algorithims: amzn.to/2Smavj9
Statistics: amzn.to/2zIlywI
Computational geometry: amzn.to/3cZ7YmR
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Wera allen keys (english): amzn.to/2RQUxNG
The best marker ever. Marks everything. Always in my pocket: amzn.to/3ewHGtL
Import spot welder. Cheap bulletproof: amzn.to/2ypHmMU
Rivnuts + tool: amzn.to/3eJstWy
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Bench sheet metal brake: amzn.to/2XNfI7h
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Check out the subreddit: tinyurl.com/smhere
I wanted to see if I could make myself a better golfer by combining robotic engineering and golf. The result is a robotic club that senses your swing and corrects your shot for distance. It should be possible to correct for slice and hook with some hardware and software upgrades. It also has a cool mode where it can be any iron so no need to carry eleven clubs.
All hail our our robot overlords. I'm looking forward to gen 2 and doing more science on how good a robot really can make you.
These videos usually take 100+ hours of work and a lot of money in tools and materials. I've made a patreon if you're interested in supporting the creation of these projects: www.patreon.com/stuffmadehere
I use a 13" iPad for all my technical drawing: amzn.to/2RKOnyL
Parts used in this build:
Practice green: amzn.to/374UnZL
Basement driving net: amzn.to/2MjWqQ1
This driver gave its life for the cause: amzn.to/2z0CDSC
Servo: amzn.to/3eLQD1U
Screen: amzn.to/3crVfZt
Knob: amzn.to/2BrgPAp
Battery pack: amzn.to/2U1jjfl
Books that I've read to learn many of the skills used in this project:
Real time collision detection: amzn.to/35iUr7i
Introduction to algorithims: amzn.to/2yUUSIN
Planning algorithims: amzn.to/2Smavj9
Statistics: amzn.to/2zIlywI
Computational geometry: amzn.to/3cZ7YmR
Other tools and things that I think are great:
Wera allen keys 1000x better than el cheapos: amzn.to/2KlCb36
Wera allen keys (english): amzn.to/2RQUxNG
The best marker ever. Marks everything. Always in my pocket: amzn.to/3ewHGtL
Import spot welder. Cheap bulletproof: amzn.to/2ypHmMU
Rivnuts + tool: amzn.to/3eJstWy
Digital angle gauge: amzn.to/2Vn6ZXL
Bench sheet metal brake: amzn.to/2XNfI7h
Vise brake (highly recommend): amzn.to/3akCkhZ
20 ton press brake: amzn.to/2xw4fhL
Cordless angle grinder - this thing will change your life: amzn.to/3cxrDdy
Dropped off ladder 20x and still going strong: amzn.to/2wO855g
Hypertherm powermax 45xp with machine torch: amzn.to/2zfoyAv
Hypertherm fine cut consumables (great for sheet metal) amzn.to/34SjMom
wow, the amount of work that went into this! The failed attempt is really interesting too. I would also need to correct for club length and missing the ball entirely!
@Stuff Made Here would also be easier to predict where will it hit the ball if you have a special ball which tells the club where it is at, or a camera at the club that can see the ball.
@Stuff Made Here Keeping the club long during the swing and shortening it just before hitting the ground should also increase the hit force quite a lot.
@Stuff Made Here Make a telescoping club to better simulate all the different clubs. Then go to Nike with it!
@Stuff Made Here "Wife Mode 2": changes the shaft length as she swings...
@Stuff Made Here also you could add a putting mode that puts the club head at a vertical
"The reason that it hadn't been working.. is because.. I had a 1 instead of a 4..." I felt that.
Debugging in a nutshell
This is how I feel every day doing sound programming in Linux "Oh, I was using bits per sample rather than bytes per sample. Only took me a week of debugging to figure out"
@sumi that's exactly it
@spaceduck413 It's also really hard to explain to non-programmers.... "I fixed it! It only took me three days!" "You changed one line of code in three days....?" "Yes?!"
Out of all the geeky people in youtube, this guy is totally in another level, and I am considering SED, Veritasium, even Adam Savage and Mark Rober. He has such a comprehensive understanding (and skills) in engineering; mechanical, electronics and systems all together. Amazing
@Bable631 Pretty sure he didnt made a Plasma sword hold in place by a magnetic field
Destin even openly admits that this guy is smarter than him
I said it once before. He's the true definition of being an engineer.
Basically just modified a plasma cutter to fit into a different case. Cool, but not the same level of engineering
Agreed. This dude is the smartest of the smart..
Wife: "Is this another prank?" You: No of course not sets club to "wife mode"
HA HA YES THAT'S THE JOKE
Yep that’s the joke congrats
Wife mode’s no joke you know?
this guy has decided that engineering is better than sex. Or meals, laundry or all the other things that happen when he's creating for 20 hours a day.
i guess we all know what this guy is gonna build next ....
Once you have the final mods in place I'd love to see a "(semi?) pro-golfer" vs "amateur with tech" battle
Rick Shiels with his manual adjustable iron vs Shane with his auto adjusting iron.
Build a skateboard that helps eliminate the learning process of doing tricks.
@Ryan's Random Shop was gonna say that
Make a skateboard that helps eliminate you. Oh wait that’s a normal skateboard
Yep that would be awesome!
@Skrrr Bababa uhhhh have you been watching this guy? yes it will.
That’s not gonna be possible
Man, how smart can a person be, Shane makes me feel like an absolute monkë
Don't be rasist
nothing wrong with being a monkë. monkë is superior species
reject humanity, return to monkë
"So no strength advantage." Why you gotta take away her advantage like that?
It's a good thing he has so much burn cream in his shop.
The BURN
hello
💀
that hit close to home
I think it would be cool to see a trombone that always plays precisely in tune. There are lots of slides to play around with. Maybe it could also detect the chord to play in tune there. The main difficulty would be making sure all the engineering itself doesn’t change the tonal quality.
Love this guy, not just the ingenuity and engineering, but the dry humour and that top monitor that's always so meta. The production value is great too, and i love the gags, baking Wife Mode into projects etc. Can't wait for another vid!
This man turns science words into English that I can understand
Google translate for nerds
Dats no man. A wizard he be!!!!
@isxact Wow you sure dunked that 12 year old
Angry4rtichoke get an hour of golf lesson
Good for you
Just the fact of having one golf club that replaces all the golf clubs should make this guy a millionare!
Already exists, and it’s illegal for play. Just like the balls that always go straight, or the wedges with special grooves. The USGA and RA frown on anything that makes golf easier for bad players.
Thank you so much again for this great video (ok I know its over one year old) ;) I think it is so important that you explain everything you do so easily, so young people can see that a lot of basic physics knowledge lies in such a project! And also thank you for that part with the USB driver, because this is exactly what every maker faces on his Project!!!! One simple thing that yould work takes you a real big bunch of time to fix - and at the end its one worng hex-Number, I dont know how often I had such issues that frustrated me so badly. I think its very important for people to see, that theses issues belong to the process and must be showed by experts like you! So THANKT YOU!!!! btw I cant find your announced music Project :(
Recommend using rigid tubing with an accumulator for hydraulic models. Rigid tubing can also be used as the club shaft. Double walled tubing could be used to minimize the shaft profile.
Just a quick tip, when doing your back swing, try not to bend your left arm as much as that will help you hit the ball more consistently.
this guy is going to make a billion dollars off one of these inventions sold off to a major company someday
@KernalMustang you would love talking to physics students or engineering students
@KernalMustang the tech has been developed like 100 times over, you could google how to do this stuff
@Flame 29 for a singular product?
@monkeymanwasd123 You really don't understand just how intelligent this dude is. He probably has offers for 3-month contracts at 100k piling up. The tech he develops is insane. The man is pretty much superhuman.
One club that can be every iron in your bag at once is great. A bag full of golf clubs is heavy, and even if you have a golf cart you still have to load and unload it from the car into the golf cart. Even without the computerized stuff that could be considered cheating, being able to carry 3-4 clubs instead of more than a dozen clubs is something golfers would definitely want.
I like your approach and design. The earliest such club (without automation ) was made in the 1930's with later ones made by "super Stick in the 1950's, Walking Sticks, and Divnick ( who currently sells them. Great work to get the ability to adjust mid-swing.
Dude... you are a freakin genius! Love your projects!
I’ve watched this dude for a weeks worth of videos and I can conclude that... this dude will eventually create every human augmentation used in cyberpunk.
amazing. I'm impressed (as usual). Awesome idea and execution. I am very interested in your venture into robotic music playing!
Love your videos! Youre keeping me inspired during my online engineering degree! What references did you use to learn to write control algorithms? Also curious what IMU you used, I've had pretty good success with the MPU6050 but the motors are causing vibrations I'm having trouble accounting for. Keep up the awesome work!
That was actually one of the best videos, because the stuff made here is relatively simple (compared to thee other projects), but still effective. :) LOVE IT!
My utmost respect for keeping trust on the broken IMU that the hardware is still good to work even after that disaster. I would have given up after 5 6 hrs of effort 😁
For version 3.... consider shaft flex as it flexes during different velocities... or just go stiff shaft to reduce that as much as you can. ... would be interesting to have a putting version that read the topography and in your smart glasses, gave you the right path & speed to putt. (Like your pool table project) awesome stuff!!!!!
My favorite part is when he casually states that two engines would be required to power the hydraulic golf club
@Patrick O hahaha that's awesome
You have an incredibly informative and entertaining channel. You made a subscriber out of me
For the hydraulic club you could use hard lines that run up the shaft and then to soft lines to the backpack pump at the grip
You get the hook/slice taken care of, and that club would be a great tool! Does the battery last 18 holes or do you need to charge it?
You’re incredible! The way you understand almost all facets of engineering consistently blows me away, and better yet you somehow get me to understand complex topics that I wouldn’t have began to look into otherwise. Thank you
10 hours later: so the reason this didn’t work is because the 1 was suppose to be a 4. - programming in a nutshell.
Alright everybody, big story coming up, so grab yourself some popcorn! I once wrote a python program to analyze an excel sheet containing thousands of rows data, send that to an external API, get the response back, do some processing and update the excel sheet. Relatively easy work, one might say. At the end I was supposed to write all the info like number of rows, how many were successfully processed, how many errors encountered such things blah blah to a log.txt file. The interesting part is, if lets say a 1000 records were error-ed out, I had to write those row numbers into the log with a comma separator. But the catch is, it has to be split into multiple lines with a maximum of 100 values per line. So I implemented some kind of loop to make that work. Everything's done. It's showtime. I know that one record takes around 3 seconds to process and I have nearly 8000 records. I estimated about 6.5 to 7 hours for the entire thing to complete, give or take. So I kept it running overnight and slept. The next morning I woke up and saw it's still not done yet. First thought, maybe the API has been slowed down due to some kind of bottleneck. So I waited longer. It's been 12 hours and still not done. When I went and checked the log file I saw that it was more than 500 MB in size. I instantly sensed something wrong (obviously), stopped the program and started debugging. After 6 hours of debugging I found out the culprit. Remember that loop I implemented for the log? Well I incremented the control variable outside the loop (python and it's indentations, argh!) I learned a major lesson that day, and I can't stress this enough. **ALWAYS TEST YOUR PROGRAM WITH SMALLER DATASETS**
There has been a ridiculous amount of times that I've tried to explain to [another person] why my code isn't working, and it usually ends up somewhere along these lines.
I'm stuck in a Stuff Made Here marathon at 3:00am. Send help
It's always a semicolon;
My favorite part of this video as a golfer myself is the glove on the wrong hand, but otherwise fantastic job
I always wish when he does these to hand the prototype to a professional (in this case a golf player) and have them try it out as well
I could definitely see the club selector being a real product. Perfect for beginners who don't want to spend a fortune on clubs.
My favorite videos ever. I would looove to be capable of these kinda projects 🤣
I can’t comprehend having this much patience and knowledge....
@divad givin did I just get trolled, I hope I did anyway
@MB I hope you use your magical unicorn for your good but your magical unicorn can't make huge Jupiter appear in the sky or gravity holding water gravitationally on a globe configuration as been claimed by NASA men and women and other government agencies in the world. Don't hurt yourself magical uniform .😣😥
@MB with my intelligence and abilities being far superior to yours easily and all humans on the Land, I'll take a little luck with the unicorn to never use it.🤔
@divad givin and I’m a magical unicorn
@divad givin that’s pretty cringe bro
Great videos!!! BTW isn't the speed of sound thru metal around 17 times faster than thru air? The speed is dependent on density of the medium.
I truly hope you keep your prototypes, failures especially - they remind us of where we came from and they are so cool!
Thank you ITmores suggestions....I now feel incredibly dumb. You good sir, are absolutely brilliant and I’m so happy to have discovered your channel!!
Great effort! One of my ideas that I believe you can accomplish is what I like to call the "treadmill shoes" From the name it is clear that the shoes are supposed to replace a treadmill by allowing the person who's wearing them to run/ walk/ jog on the spot. No motors are involved just bearings, sensors, a control board and brakes the limit the motion of the bearings according to an algorithm you're supposed to derive. Have fun!
Love this guy, not just the ingenuity and engineering, but the dry humour and that top monitor that's always so meta. The production value is great too, and i love the gags, baking Wife Mode into projects etc. Can't wait for another vid!
Ya seriously, this guy is my new favorite dude. What a legend.
"a neat little parallel" Brother, the screw comparison and other little side chutes like it are one of the many things that make these videos so damn entertaining. You also make your projects super comprehensible to the layman. Not saying I am one.... I mean... Nah but really @stuff made here you have some seriously awesome content and I can't wait to see what you upload next. Picture my sadness when I realized you didn't have a massive trove of uploads... But the video quality and just the whole entire way you edit and put these together is perfect. Perfect. Thanks so much for the content. Really makes me happy and improves my quality of life and well-being. Cheers to you and your family. You're appreciated beyond explanation.
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I love this guy. Hope he ends up finishing the slice/draw correction option at some point.
Excellent work ethic and a good amount of smarts can take you a long way in life.
I love your content man. Looking forward to mark 2
"The reason it's not working is I had a one instead of a four" I felt that.
ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY.
@Da Dillen Oof, I've done exactly the same thing. That hurts.
too many times. Too Many Freaggin' Times!
Me too
This sexual talk? Could apply.
Hitting 500 balls with one club and then the other would skew your data as well, as you gain 500 hits worth of experience hitting the ball. So you have to continuously switch between each shot to keep all the variable deviation to a minimum, I think.
The speed of "sound" is actually much higher in denser materials like the aluminium in the golf club or the fluid in hydralic hoses :)
Your glove positioning is on point l absolutely love it!! ⛳