Courses and homemade holder

[Jb50]

I took a couple of screen shots of the TGC courses included with Rmotion. I also made a homemade holder for the sensor. It seems to work fine. I'll probably make a couple more and keep them along with the included ones attached to the clubs with one removable for the clubs that I won't have them on.

[Chuck]

Quick, Hand me a piece of gum, a rubber band and a soda straw. This is my take on a Macgyver fix to the chip holder and it doesn't use the poster putty method. Ok so what do I have ... Plastic Wiffle golf balls, some zip ties, scissors, razor. and optionally wire snips if you need to remove it. Break the wiffle ball in half run zip tie through holes on opposite sides of the half. Zip tie to club as tight as you can (pull tightly). You can use two ties if holes line up. The half whiffle will bend around the shaft of the club and form a pocket. Now cut our a slot in the top of the pocket so your R-motion sensor slides in. It should be held nice and firm, To remove the sensor, just pinch the wiffle half and it should slide out easy. It seems to work pretty well. If the chip slips all the way in pocket, it may seem difficult to get out. But the plastic pinches and deforms letting the sensor out typically with little trouble. Refine as you see fit. There may be better ways.

Performance wise, it was working good for me.

[Chuck]

As I've worked with this, it does need some refinements. First, one zip tie doesn't seem to be enough. 2 ties keep it from slipping on the shaft when you do a hard fast swing. The original design, the chip slipped into the pocket too easily. So I tried stuffing plastic wrap in the bottom of the pocket. It helps.
What I want to do is somehow get the chip to be held in place parallel to the shaft. Which got me to wonder about a whole lot of physics question with this device.

First, what is the optimal distance from the club head to the chip? If that is decided with the one-second pause, wouldn't hitting off of a tee effect the swing calculations? With the one second pause, when putting, how do you compensate for the slope of the green? The same is true of all clubs. The players stance and setup don't have anything to do with direction. Anyway, its been fun.

[StormGolf73]

I took a couple of screen shots of the TGC courses included with Rmotion. I also made a homemade holder for the sensor. It seems to work fine. I'll probably make a couple more and keep them along with the included ones attached to the clubs with one removable for the clubs that I won't have them on.

I can't quite make out the details of the holder you made. Is that a 3 printed part? If so would you care to share your file...I might try some designs if it isn't. Just fun to play around...

[Jb50]

Nothing that fancy. It's been a while but I believe that was a tic-tac plastic case. I still use it but only on my putter. Works great for the putter though. I Use the Rmotion clips on the rest of my clubs.

[Chuck]

Way back in 2017, I posted some pictures of an R-motion holder, but ir needed some refinement. I've since been using that design for the Tittle-X device to play E6 and that has worked great. The initial reason this design didn't work well was the R-motion sensor would rattle around in the basket (it was loose) and was hard to get out once it fell in. As I played more and more with the TittleX and that half-wiffle ball holder, I was inspired to invent again and believe it or not, it didn't take much to make this concept work for R-motion's sensor.

So the change from the TittleX design is simply to cut the wiffle ball a little differently. In youtube videos, I've shown how to cut and clip golf ball size plastic wiffle balls into a shape that can be zip-tied to your clubs and hold a Tittle-X sensor. That sensor is just slightly thicker and longer than the R-motion. So with a new cut pattern to the wiffle ball, the pocket can be made smaller and tighter. So here is my new R-motion design. What you will notice is I do not clip the top tab off as I do for TittleX and I do clip a tab from the bottom holes. The 5-hole orientation is the same as the wiffle ball in my Tittle design. Other than that, the orientation is the same and the strap on with zip-ties is the same. In my test with a 3 iron with high speed real ball impacts, ir performed very very well! Removing the R-motion sensor is very easy too, you just pinch the base of the holder and squeeze the sensor up and out of the sleeve. What's fun is you can see the R-motion LED shining through the plastic.

If you try this, let me know how it turns out for you. I would be really interested.