So cool.
Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot
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#42Great job. Both on your build as well as your entertaining video. Makes me miss the days of in-person working where we spent a LOT of time on the foosball table. To the point where we built an automatic score tracking system complete with dashboards, ELO, seasons, tournament mode, etc. You simply swiped your badge on the table and with a few infrared sensors it kept score and automatically updated your stats as well as the live score feeds. Good times.
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#43He failed to build in an inebriation handicap. How would this robot perform after 3 pints?
My balmer peak was at 1.75 pints and lasted thru the end of 3. Then followed by a steep decline. I agree that this would need to be modeled in the robot.
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#44So cool! I played a shitload of foosball / table soccer / kicker / baby (foot). And I lived in different countries / continents and noticed there are so many variants... Some have plastic players, other little wooden players (my favorite). Some have players with flat feet, other with feet that have an angle (it's too easy IMO: way to easy to shot in diagonal: which is doable too with flat feet but requires more skill). There are some where in the corners, so that the ball doesn't get stuck, there's an inclined flat piece of wood, on others it can be a curve (I saw that in Spain / Ibiza a long time ago) then there are some where there's nothing to prevent the ball from getting stuck in a corner.
Then the rules. So many different rules. French rules are probably the weirdest where "pissette" ain't allowed in casual pub games but is allowed in official games.
As a sidenote in a science museum I got to play some foosball vs a robotic arm (which may be of interest to TFA's author) but the robot was cheating in that it could rotate the player to any angle FFS! That was quite cheesy. A little girl can be seen playing it here (8th pic in the slideshow):
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#45Off topic comment on my part here but, I’ve never noticed before that GitHub down-cases the display text of the project link at the top. I noticed it now because it’s a YouTube video also linked in the readme, and YouTube video links (and many, perhaps even most, other links) are case sensitive. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrwXZXGiP1w In the top on mobile GitHub renders the text for the link instead as www.…
No such problem in a browser. Perhaps the weird choice is creating, or using, an app for a web site in the first place.
I don't think that is true. If you run the Nginx web server on Linux for example, with a case sensitive file system, I'm pretty sure that the files you serve will also by default have case sensitive URLs. And probably it'd be the same with Apache on Linux with a case sensitive file system.
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#46I'm really curious how this would've looked if he'd taken a mid-range budget approach to vision instead of being able to throw (tens of?) thousands of dollars of industrial motion capture cameras at it. Something like 2-4 global shutter cameras, all running a similar vision filter to what he first demo'd, feeding a kalman filter/state estimator to determine the ball's position. I can't blame hime for following the mantra of "don't build what you can buy (or get from a sponsor)" but it would be cool to see some affordable solutions (or attempted solutions) to this problem.
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#48This is awesome. I'd love to have this for home practice.
But can the robot shit talk? As a fellow lover of foosball I find that shit talking is ingrained in the culture as demoralizing an opponent (see Community) is a big part of winning at the highest level and should be the next step. I think a committed foosball player might end up creating the first true AGI just for proper shit talking.
Foosball is a tabletop game without general cultural respect (like table tennis does as an olympic sport) or chess, but while robots can easily beat me at chess these days it looks like I'd still be able to beat a state of the art robot foosball table.
The video is very intentionally funny (in a dry way) across the board but owning your younger brother as part of it is hilarious and he was a good sport.
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#49Great job. Both on your build as well as your entertaining video. Makes me miss the days of in-person working where we spent a LOT of time on the foosball table. To the point where we built an automatic score tracking system complete with dashboards, ELO, seasons, tournament mode, etc. You simply swiped your badge on the table and with a few infrared sensors it kept score and automatically updated your stats as well…
This is the FAANGest comment ever. I love it.
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#50That’s pretty neat. Is this guys a well known YouTuber or something? He seemed shockingly successful at getting companies to send him really high quality components.
I was wondering the same thing but this is only the second video on the account.