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Bar Billiards Auto-Score Project Outline

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President Cuthbert Baines
The Bar Billiards Premier League
Sheffield

Overview

We want to use IOT and smart technologies to create a computerised system that will automatically detect when a players has scored points, keep track of their score for them and display the score on screen for them. The system should also include the clock, the rules and instructions as required.

Specifications

The system should not have any affect on the Bar Billiards game itself, the players should not be required to stop playing to wait for a computer to load data or process data.

Milestones

  • Create Python based program that keeps track of the scores for the Bar Billiards players while displaying the scores on screen when the players manually input them into a hand held raspberry pi/pico powered device with an attachment that enables user input.

  • The timer/alert indicating the bar dropping should become part of the program.

  • Instructions/advice for new players and the entire Bar Billiards Rule book should be accessible for users to be able to clarify rules and settle disagreements.

  • Specifications for the Ball detection part of the system to be agreed and recorded.

  • A process for testing/trialling the feasibility of the different design concepts for the Bar Billiards Ball Detection modules.

  • Deploy The Bar Billiards Ball Detection Module.

  • Connect the BB Auto-Score to the BBBDM.

  • Public demonstration of the System.

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  • P.S. This is a passion project so if anyone has any ideas to help me along the way or wants to get involved in making it happen then please feel free to get in touch.  I'm mainly doing this to demonstrate a few of my Embedded systems skills and to add to my portfolio so if anything else comes out of this project it will be a massive bonus!

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