Build Suggestion: Automatic Dog Ball Thrower.

My dog Nahani loves to play ball toss. I get a sore back tossing the ball all the time and also when I am doing yard work she is always insisting to play ball. Please help.

Tired.

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Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to beacon_dave +1

I found another that looks interesting but doesn't have the "smarts" like the counting and the remote etc. But that could be added I guess to this one. https://youtu.be/V9UOcUKazSA

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0 beacon_dave over 9 years ago

Something along the lines of this perhaps ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcL6-mjRNk
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0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

That's an awesome robot tosser for indoors..... my lab cross is an outdoor dog ....
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0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

That's an awesome robot tosser for indoors..... my lab cross is an outdoor dog ....
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0 beacon_dave over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

How about this one then ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7AOy1DbvYw
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0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

This is a much better option. Do you think Ben could put some Heck-yah in it but still make it something we can make at home?
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0 beacon_dave over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member
Some enhancements might be to:

have some sort of range and direction limit controls so as to avoid the greenhouse/neighbours pond.
dog tracking mode so that it always launches away for the dog for maximum exercise or toward the dog if it likes to jump and catch the ball.
garden chair mode to allow the dog owner to interact and operate it from the comfort of their chair using a mobile device.
auto loading from a bucket. If you can train the dog to return the ball to the machine then great, but I suspect a lot of dogs will return the ball direct to the owner, so you probably just want to be able to toss the ball into something like a bucket which then reloads the machine.
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