The name Sheldon comes to mind.
Well done for designing and building something that you are passionate about.
Thank you for correcting and belittling people - the world must now be a better place.
I've been on this forum correcting and belittling people and explaining things for over ten years. The world IS a better place because some people on here have stopped continuing to regurgitate information which is now known to be wrong.
There's a massive difference between not being able to read or interpret interpersonal interaction (Sheldon) and often not caring (Me). I established that a 100% satisfaction rating is unachievable decades ago, so stopped worrying about breaking a few eggs.
Besides, one of the most effective ways to get people to read things is if it makes them angry. The world's newspapers have known that for years.
Perhaps your energy would be better spent explaining to the uneducated masses why this is so much better than what we already have today and what tests you are planning to do to advance the understanding of our sport.
IMO I guess
Compound Bow tuning might be one of those, although it only helps to create a starting point for which fine tuning is then required because humans are not machines and lousy at doing repetitive tasks, find it hard to not torque a bow etc etc.
Humans still out shoot a machine over a WA1440 because a machine still requires a human to do the aiming especially if it is windy. So the value of a shooting machine still has its limitations.
There's virtually no point expending any energy explaining to the uneducated masses at what I'm planning to do.
There is already published research available that they can't be bothered reading NOW.
The uneducated masses typically ignore the research because they have anecdotes to disprove it.
The publications of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology already has heaps of archery based research that few archers bother to read and try and understand. This isn't the case with International Teams, however.
The difference between this particular machine and what is available today?
It is faster to operate than a manually cranked one and the commercially available hooter shooter. (It's also cheaper.)
The less the machine is disturbed, the more reliable the results are.
This machine is designed to be modular so that a dead parallel arrow draw can be achieved for the purposes of studying the effects of
recurve tiller and testing for nock travel variation in the last few centimeters of
compound draw.
It has moveable, removeable and reversible support legs so that clearance can be obtained if required for unusual stabiliser configurations. Elevation of up to 45 degrees can be obtained so as to enable long distance testing and drag comparisons of arrow configurations, including fore and aft FOC comparisons. This requires arrows to be released in as short a time as possible to minimise condition change variables.
It has one of the most solid drawstops that I've ever seen on a shooting machine.
It will have the facility to generate force/draw curves automatically at some point in the future.
The educated minority care, because they're the ones who are already putting in the work and are at the point where the small advances made in testing equipment can make a difference. When an arrow's level of straightness can be proven to lose points, it's worth confirming you have an optimum performing set.
One of the world's foremost archery researchers has stated that shooting perfect ends at 90 meters gets boring, so wherever your information comes from that a human will outshoot them, is at least six and possibly up to ten years out of date.
A modified commercial hooter shooter was used to test the computer modelling of wind drift in the Monash University Wind Tunnel, so the wind drift component of various top level is well known and understood.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1754337111418876?journalCode=pipa
The last thing that you'd use a shooting machine for is tuning compounds, but they do make a handy draw board.
There's nothing stopping me bolting some fittings to this and use it as a bowpress either.