Years ago when I was really Gung Ho about testing and doing lots of prototyping I was working on a high tech set up for my shooting machine with the chronograph, a DRO micrometer for draw length, and an advanced digital scale that was all hooked to my laptop. My goal was to be able to shoot one arrow through the chronograph and have instant results on a DFC chart.
I had pretty much all the bugs worked out using a slide micrometer with a digital read out, but wasn’t real happy with having to calibrate it after each shot. So i looked into some seriously high tech sensors used in the aerospace industry that would interface better with the pc without all the physical movement issues using a slide micrometer. But…. They wanted a bloody fortune to acquire them.
There was also the issue of writing a program to transfer all the data into the spread sheet. I discussed this briefly with Alan case, and he was quite certain it could be accomplished…..
But after weighing out the cost and time invested in fine tuning this contraption, I just couldn’t justify the investment, and it died on the vine so to speak.
I did take it to a 3D shoot one time and set it up thinking more archers would like to know their bows performance levels. But …. I was amazed how many archers could care less about their bow performance actually being measured and put on a spread sheet… I came to the realization that it’s pretty much only the bowyers that really get into this stuff. This was another reason I didn’t follow through with completion of this very cool contraption…. But I had a lot of fun trying to get all the bugs worked out. Hell of a rabbit hole that one…
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