Any way to jury-rig a thingamabob to measure putting accel/decel?

[nevets88]

Someone here posted a jury rigged a laser on the putter head as an aiming aide. Anyone know of a way to buy something on the cheap to measure putterhead speed, without buying a SAM Putt Lab device? I guess you could write a smartphone app that takes a video of the stroke and figures it out from the video.

[iacas]

2 hours ago, nevets88 said:

Someone here posted a jury rigged a laser on the putter head as an aiming aide. Anyone know of a way to buy something on the cheap to measure putterhead speed, without buying a SAM Putt Lab device? I guess you could write a smartphone app that takes a video of the stroke and figures it out from the video.

You could count frames yourself. The Tomi was a lot cheaper but I don't know how suspect the data from that was - it was made by the same guy who made the SAM but costs quite a bit less… and is less accurate, but is it good enough? I don't know.

[nevets88]

16 minutes ago, iacas said:

You could count frames yourself. The Tomi was a lot cheaper but I don't know how suspect the data from that was - it was made by the same guy who made the SAM but costs quite a bit less… and is less accurate, but is it good enough? I don't know.

Thanks. I'll try counting frames.

[billchao]

24 minutes ago, nevets88 said:

Thanks. I'll try counting frames.

Don't forget to make a grid for the background, Mythbusters style 

[Ernest Jones]

Does the iPing putting app do that?

it does add a fair but of weight to your shaft, so maybe not ideal even if it does measure acceleration. And I don't remember if it does. 

[DrvFrShow]

Seriously? Unless you're going to give a presentation on what the club head does during the putting stroke you're thinking too much. But if you want to write a smartphone app and sell it.... then profit.

[billchao]

38 minutes ago, DrvFrShow said:

Seriously? Unless you're going to give a presentation on what the club head does during the putting stroke you're thinking too much. But if you want to write a smartphone app and sell it.... then profit.

I'm guessing @nevets88 wants to work on his speed with some observable feedback.

 

[nevets88]

1 minute ago, billchao said:

I'm guessing @nevets88 wants to work on his speed with some observable feedback.

 

Yep. Not an unreasonable request. I basically want a poor man's Sam Putt lab. 

[billchao]

2 minutes ago, nevets88 said:

Yep. Not an unreasonable request. I basically want a poor man's Sam Putt lab. 

I'm picturing a board of some kind with vertical lines drawn on it that you can place between the ball and your feet, then you can record your putt and calculate the distance/frame. Mythbusters 

[nevets88]

13 minutes ago, billchao said:

I'm picturing a board of some kind with vertical lines drawn on it that you can place between the ball and your feet, then you can record your putt and calculate the distance/frame. Mythbusters 

That makes a lot of sense. I might consider writing an app for it. After the two dozen other app ideas I have.