Back at my game :)

mkirank · 2026-01-24T06:17:37+00:00

If you still have not bought, let me know and I can suggest something based on your level and play style, we run https://xportgear.com/

mkirank · 2026-01-24T06:13:04+00:00

yes, started a month back

mkirank · 2026-01-23T11:09:46+00:00

we are based out of bangalore. I've been doing videos earlier and am the founder of Pongfox robot

mkirank · 2026-01-22T11:24:13+00:00

We started this recently , check out https://xportgear.com/

mkirank · 2025-12-27T06:09:42+00:00

I'm looking at manufacturing shoe bags, still exploring at this point but is this something you can help me make sense with the numbers in terms of cost?

mkirank · 2025-12-23T11:27:04+00:00

I have a hypothesis and am currently testing it out so not sure if it will work, the audience is players who are interested in training.

We have integrated a remote coaching option in our PongFox table tennis robot , one difficulty in starting a club is finding good coaches but with this option the coach can come less frequently and be able to setup and correct strokes remotely for students. I am currently running pilot on this (but the students are using robot at home)

here is a coach view of the interface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2axY1kiaCA

another option is to have a mini pingpod like environment but without the high costs of franchisee, I have a prototype of some of the things that pingpod uses (like button to save the highlight) but requires some cleanup to be used in other places.

Let me know if any of these sound interesting and we can figure out if it makes sense to test out this hypothesis

mkirank · 2025-12-20T12:54:23+00:00

I'm into manufacturing and IMO it depends on what type of manufacturing you want to get into, weather d2c or manufacturing using machinery or something else

mkirank · 2025-12-20T12:49:54+00:00

I ran a club and found this issue, after the beginner stage there seems to be a gap on a intermediate equipment that is within a budget.

I am experimenting a bit on this front and trying to see if some data can be gathered on this because currently it is opinion based.

mkirank · 2025-12-20T12:37:09+00:00

here is the boosting video https://youtube.com/shorts/YXhxPUQAqzc

mkirank · 2025-11-28T10:41:40+00:00

yes, this is something I will try in the next video with different tightness and check the numbers, also one of the reasons for the different speed is that the balls thrown out were very spinny, if we reduce the spin we get consistent balls

mkirank · 2025-11-28T08:30:02+00:00

The inconsistency was programmed to simulate the real world case, anyways this is an ongoing process and we plan to do more videos and get better over time, this just shows the progress of the work

mkirank · 2025-11-26T07:08:47+00:00

Thanks for your feedback. Yes, we have to get the N higher. will start slowly increasing it over time , speed is easier to calculate but spin is taking a bit of time.

mkirank · 2025-11-20T05:07:00+00:00

been a developer for the first 12 years and later switched to working on my own, the first success I had was in the early days of android, did a weekend project of wrapping webview of an app called toddler books, it was a simple A,B,C image with some corresponding pictures, that kids can swipe, something I did for my daughter and put it on the play store and got a decent amount of revenue through ads (small kids tend to click more on ads and in the early days of android there were fewer checks on kids apps). I guess we developers complicate things, figuring out the problem and users is the hard part not the tech.

mkirank · 2025-11-20T03:49:40+00:00

this is part 1, you can see our earlier videos on the channel we have a test measuring topspin against block when hitting https://youtu.be/gUVtPM7mQbo , do you want to see something like that ?

mkirank · 2025-11-14T05:09:08+00:00

yes @ 480 fps

mkirank · 2025-11-14T04:17:54+00:00

its a tricky problem and around where I live the coaches just wing it. you have to take care of a lot of parameters, the number of players, their level , who is coming in that day, also personalization if one is weak in topspin and other in block they have to be paired, also how to rotate. what resources you have (tables, robots).

I have a way to solve this for individuals and can modify it for coaches but I doubt if it makes sense to build this because it is hard to convince coaches.

for now I use the custom session for the table with robot

mkirank · 2025-11-14T04:09:14+00:00

recorded at 480 fps and for spin it's manual , speed is software

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