Mancave Garage Setup

[Kjlhd]

Hey all, newbie here, I've had the Optishot for a little under a year now and have had many months of trial and error with my setup. I have a very tall, 2 car garage, about 14' tall, so I had no height restrictions at all. The only downside is I didn't set it up to accommodate lefties. Anyways, I was gifted an old Sanyo projector that still works great and I have it positioned in the back of the room at about 8' height. I got the mats from the local driving range, they were selling old ones for $50 last fall. Great deal, these are commercial strength. The stance mat is in great shape, the swing mat has noticeable wear and tear but it's just for show. The turf floor is from HD, custom cut size. The screen is just a plain old queen flat bed sheet from Kmart, works perfectly well with the Almost balls. I ran steel wire at the top and bottom and secured it to steel pipe at the top corners and put in concrete anchors in the floor to hold the bottom corners. I built the club rack from some scrap wood. I also built that nifty floor button pad which uses 6 arcade buttons to control the aim LR, club UD, loft and mulligans. It's fantastic and saves me from walking to computer after every shot. I'm considering making a few to sell if anyone is interested. I toyed with a few lighting options, first with an incandescent disco ball light from the back, then an led spot at the side, but then finally landed on the perfect solution. I bought a different disco ball led pinspot for $12 on Amazon and attached to ceiling directly above the sensors. The pinspot was too small so I taped a water bottle to the light to deflect the light, works perfectly, just enough diameter to cover both sensors. I used white electrical tape for the clubs and everything works fairly well. My putting stinks no matter what I do. I just joined the Mini Tour so I'll see you around. Cheers!

[thorin33]

Nice setup. The only thing I would add to your setup is the Slick Things turf top for the Optishot. Way nicer than the stock top.

How much would the floor button pad cost? I may be interested if the price was right.

[CBearsSB]

Nice set up. Are the floor buttons hard wired? Is there a way to have floor buttons operate via Bluetooth or RF or IR?

[Ironstrokes]

Love the little bunkers too haha, adds to the whole ambiance of the room. Im curious about the button set up as well

[Kjlhd]

Thanks all, sorry just saw these messages. I'm selling my custom made Optishot remote controllers at www.GolfinGator.com. Let me know if you're interested and I'll give you a special Forum discount. CBears, the controller is hard wired via USB, just plug and play. I will build a demo Bluetooth option one of these days!

[FaultyClubs]

Kj,

These things work great for TGC also. You could broaden you market to include them too. It would be nice to have a little more buttons for the TGC version. I have 10 buttons on mine plus a joystick (joystick came with the buttons so i used it too!). I haven't used all my buttons but getting close!

[thorin33]

I am interested but am in Canada. Would you ship here?

[Jizrigs]

Anything special you did to get it to work on optishot? Built one , works on everything but optishot

[Rlefig]

i think that looks great would love to do that in my garage but only have 7-8 feet to the rafters