I would like to create a tool for my son’s baseball practice that will read the trajectory, velocity, and possibly rotation of a baseball as it passes through two sensors’ fields of view after being hit. See following example image…
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While not very experienced in this arena, I have worked with Arduino and Raspberry Pi in the past and am happy to use whatever microcontroller or single board computer makes the most sense with the correct sensors. What I would like advice on is what sensors would be the best for this applications (lidar, doppler, imaging, etc.).
Is it possible to capture these details (trajectory, velocity, and rotation) if the baseball is hit at high speeds through the sensors’ field of view? Is this possible with sensors available here on SparkFun?
Thank you in advance for any and all help!
-Eric](https://postimages.org/)
I think this is going to be difficult for a live reading…but you could very easily get a high speed camera and use Kinovea to mark out and measure everything in the video https://www.kinovea.org/
You could also use a combination of either pulsed radar and ToF sensors…but I’d think the video method would be much more reliable for data
TS-Russell:
I think this is going to be difficult for a live reading…but you could very easily get a high speed camera and use Kinovea to mark out and measure everything in the video https://www.kinovea.org/
You could also use a combination of either pulsed radar and ToF sensors…but I’d think the video method would be much more reliable for data
I really appreciate the thoughtful reply, @TS-Russell.
My first reaction is to be intimidated by trying to figure out the programming involved with the high speed camera. If I were to go that way, are there reasonably priced cameras that you would recommend?
I am going to dig into both of the options you presented and see what I can learn. Thanks again!