Hi I'm new to Arduino, trying to plan a baseball pitching target

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I am very new to Arduino but have an idea to create a baseball pitching target that would sense impact location and transmit or save the data so that it can be viewed for training purposes. This would be a target that would be slightly larger than the pitch fx strike zone that you see used in MLB stadiums. I want it to be able to detect where on the target the impact happened.
This is my initial idea for the target.

My other idea that I wasn't sure if it would be possible would be a way to visually track the path of the pitch and record the data so that it can be reviewed. It would have to be able to show whether it was in the strike zone or not as well. But I'm not sure how to even go about setting it up this way.

Any ideas on the best way to go about either of these would be more then welcome!

Thanks Naesh

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Wondering if you've made any progress. I'm interested in a similar setup as far as the target, and I'm brand spankin new to Arduino

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idea to create a baseball pitching target that would sense impact location and transmit or save the data so that it can be viewed for training purposes

I don't play baseball but I got the perfect brain to think how things could work.
I googled "baseball pitching target" and I got this:

I got this because It's a perfect example of what you can build, you need arduino which gonna read
a matrix table, the ball gonna hit a square and it gonna be saved in a sd card which square did you hit.
You will need to make a "capacity matrix buttons" I call them like that, if the ball hit one of the square
the square will read that something pushed the front and back layer and the resistance going crazy :smiley:
so that means it's "pushed" so that data will be saved on your SD Card as hit.

D.60

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I think visual tracking would be pretty hard on an arduino given the limited processing capabilities. An easier way to do it would be to use a camera attached to a computer to record the pitches. Then use software to analyze the data. Matlab is the easiest language to use for image analysis. It's got lots of built in functions for it and it's native way of storing data as matrices lends well to analysis. If you don't have access to it you could look into Octave, a similar but free program.