I’m a massive Star Wars fan and wanted to be able to use the force. There’s one scene in Star Wars where Obi-Wan Kenobi waves his hand and closes a door. It’s so simple and that’s what I think most people would use the force for, simple tasks.
The video explains a lot but here are some highlights:
- A camera + raspberry pi are used for the gesture recognition so it can recognize my hand movements.
- To open the door, I used some metal wire, a pulley, and a motor. There’s a thousand ways to open a door, but how would you have done it? I also considered a linear actuator.
- I had trouble increasing the speed of the motor to open the door so instead, I made the total length of the metal wire shorter. Assuming the wind up speed of the motor is constant, reducing the length of the wire by 80% should make it 5x faster.
Basically +- 4 yards if it's SLIGHTLY uphill/downhill or SOME wind in either direction. If you were STEEPLY uphill/downhill or there was STRONG wind, +- 12 yards. This was just trial and error on the golf course honing it in. Would be cool to have some sensors to make that even more specific.
There were 2 tubes for the ball, so they would need to be reloaded. But my friend Jason did have a design for how I could have 12-15 balls that would automatically feed in. Just didn't have time to implement it :(
Thanks so much :) Really glad you liked it. I love making these videos. They just take so long to make. I love these final "showcase" type videos that are really cleanly edited but I'm also considering mixing in "here's how it's going right now" and releasing those videos more frequently to show that process before I release the final video (that is edited like this one).
Confession: I’ve never seen Caddyshack. But after everyone telling me about my bags reference to the movie, I watched the clip where the golf bag shoots out the club haha and I can see the crazy coincidence
The video explains a lot but here are some highlights:
- A camera + raspberry pi are used for the gesture recognition so it can recognize my hand movements.
- To open the door, I used some metal wire, a pulley, and a motor. There’s a thousand ways to open a door, but how would you have done it? I also considered a linear actuator.
- I had trouble increasing the speed of the motor to open the door so instead, I made the total length of the metal wire shorter. Assuming the wind up speed of the motor is constant, reducing the length of the wire by 80% should make it 5x faster.
Any questions? Let me know.