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I think I see what might do the trick here. To put this all together, as I see it, you would need a GPS inside the golfball, connected to a low power transmitter - one of the licence free 2.4 GHz ones whould do - also inside the golf ball (getting mighty crowded in there!) These transmitters are available in quite small sizes, but nonetheless a little microengineering would be required. Then you would need a receiver for this little transmitter which would then feed this signal into a bit of software in your PDA to decode the GPS>TX>-over the air->RX>PDA link, which will then allow any of the topographical GPS applications (Memory Map, Fugawi etc) to show the location of the golfball!!
All the electronics inside the golfball would need to be embedded in resin to counter the huge g-forces that will occur. It is possible. One project I remember put accelerometers inside golfballs, coupled to a low power transmitter, so that the perfomance of said golfball could be measured non-destructively - it worked too!
The other issue you will have to address is that of a power supply inside the golfball as well!
Joined: Aug 21, 2005 Posts: 1761 Location: Kent, England
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:44 am Post subject:
Corrie wrote:
Secondly, this is a commerce program, so the engineering and complete feasibility of the product is secondary. The biggest thing is having a feasible business solution, cost efficiency, marketing projections etc. As long as it sounds possible and we have most aspects of its design and production covered, it should be good.
Why does this worry me but not surprise me. Remember these will be our leaders of the future. Engineering is dead, long live bulls***t!
Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 172 Location: Sunny Spain
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:50 pm Post subject:
Hi Everyone
Just to let you know that I was on the golf course the other day and just about to tee off, when my partner heard this strange bleeping noise, when he inquired about it I told him that it was my golf ball, he asked me what it was all about, and I told him that it bleeps so that you could not lose it, just follow the bleep, good God he said, that must have cost a lot of money, no it didnt I said, I found it.
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Joined: Jun 16, 2004 Posts: 454 Location: London, Ingerlund
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject:
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Secondly, this is a commerce program, so the engineering and complete feasibility of the product is secondary. The biggest thing is having a feasible business solution, cost efficiency, marketing projections etc. As long as it sounds possible and we have most aspects of its design and production covered, it should be good.
As long as you don't take that thinking out into the "real" world!!
Cost would be your killer anyway. GPS boards aren't that cheap (compared to a simple RF transmitter) so each ball would cost a lot of money.
Engineering-wise, you have size, power, the fact that you need a sky-facing antenna, the fact that it'll break as soon as you hit it, the fact that you would need to sit your ball on the ground for 5 minutes or more to get a GPS fix before you could even hit it and so on...
Back to la-la land; why not use RF instead of GSM to transmit the position back to the PDA. Cheaper (both to implement and in terms of running costs) and possibly a smaller circuit board.
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