how an Arduino could improve some sports

Golf:
web based hole poppers - let fans, or anti fans control a popper solenoid mounted in the hole.

ok, i thought i had more to offer, but i can't come up with more when somebody here keeps talking to me (it is highly distracting) :wink:

what else can people come up with? :wink:

~Travis

well, i'm not sure about an arduino but a positioning system for American Football so we can know if the rb got the touchdown or first down.

Strictly arduino based: Magic eight ball for the refs so they can figure out if that was a catch or not. Seems like they've needed some sort of help as of late.

I presume the purpose of the "hole popper" is to bounce the ball back out of the hole so the guy has to take at least one more stroke? Sounds like a great idea.

How about moving goal-posts for football? They have been the scourge of politics for years.

...R

Actually, seeing as it is meant to be an Arduino-related project, I think virtual goalposts would be even better.

You touch the ball down and then consult the Arduino to find out if the touch-down was anywhere near where the virtual goal posts were at that moment.

Another option is a performance drug concentration detector - the one who crosses the line with the highest concentration wins. Much easier to enforce than a no-performance-drugs regime.

...R

Robin2:
Another option is a performance drug concentration detector - the one who crosses the line with the highest concentration wins. Much easier to enforce than a no-performance-drugs regime.

That win may have to be awarded posthumously.

Henry_Best:
That win may have to be awarded posthumously.

Nah. If you die before the finish line you don't win. The challenge is to take enough stuff, but not too much :slight_smile:

...R

Have you ever considered the number of area-denial weapons attributed to Scotland?
Claymore mines, golf courses, bagpipes...?

You forgot Nicola Sturgeon.

And , of course, rain , wind, midges, kilts, cabers and haggis ( for it's after-effects) ..

Allan

allanhurst:
You forgot
... kilts ...

Aren't they "all inclusive" ?

...R

So it is alleged. Being English, I wouldn't know.

A Scotsman once told me that they were the ideal garment for both fornication and diarrhoea.

Allan