About the project¶
Playing steel darts and counting score by hand or by a mobile app was kind of a bummer for me. So first I designed a scoreboard app to track dart games. But at that point I was just using them like any other mobile app to keep track of the score. So this project was born.
The idea¶
I was thinking of a system with multiple cameras pointed at the scoreboard from above. It should use video capturing and image processing to determine where the dart hit the board.
The structure¶
The software is supposed to run either on a mini computer like a raspberry pi or any other hardware like a real computer or latop, running linux, next to the dart board. There are several webcams (2-4) hooked up to the system which are above the board. You are using a normal steel dart board and normal steel darts and you will not have to buy any special dart hardware. The complete system might be built into a sleek compartment housing all together with additional LED-stripes for good lighting (Also refer to the building example for details).
A few words on the coding language¶
As I am using python a lot at work it came naturally to me to use python here as well. Also I think it will address a broad community if someone wants to contribute.