Self-Following Golf Trolley

Type: Personal project | Status: [In progress] | Year: [2026]

[Add a description of the main project photo]

Project overview

[One or two paragraphs introducing the trolley — the idea of a golf trolley that tracks and follows its owner around the course without being pushed or remote-controlled. Explain the motivation: what it's like using a normal trolley that made you want to automate this, and roughly how the trolley decides where "following" means at any moment.]

 Key result: [Summarise the headline outcome once you have one — e.g. tracking
          distance achieved, how reliably it follows, or a demo result.]

Design challenge

[Describe the constraints: tracking a moving person reliably outdoors (in changing light, over rough or sloped terrain), keeping a safe following distance, stopping or avoiding obstacles, battery life over a full round, and keeping the whole thing light enough to still function as a trolley.]

Tracking method [e.g. UWB tag, camera, GPS]

Top speed [e.g. walking pace]

Battery life [e.g. per full round]

Total weight [including batteries and electronics]

Design solution

[Explain how the system works end to end — how it senses the position of the person carrying the tag/tracker, how that's turned into a drive command, and how the trolley steers and stops safely.]

Key components

[Sensing/tracking hardware]: [what it is and why you chose it]
[Drive system]: [motors, wheels, gearing]
[Control electronics]: [microcontroller, motor drivers]
[Chassis/frame]: [materials and how it's built]

Calculations & analysis

[Summarise the analysis once it exists — motor torque and speed sizing, battery capacity vs. runtime, control-loop tuning for smooth following, or terrain/slope handling.]

[Calculation or analysis 1]
[Calculation or analysis 2]
[Calculation or analysis 3]

Manufacturing approach

[Describe how the chassis and mounts are being made — 3D printed brackets, an adapted or built trolley frame, off-the-shelf motors and electronics you're integrating, and so on.]

 Manufacturing note: [Flag anything notable — a tricky mounting problem solved, a
          part that needed several iterations, or a constraint from using off-the-shelf components.]

Project photos / further design details

Skills developed

[Skill 1 — e.g. sensor integration]
[Skill 2 — e.g. control systems / following algorithms]
[Skill 3 — e.g. mechanical design and manufacturing]
[Skill 4]

Reflection

[Once the project has progressed, reflect on what was hardest to get right, what you'd change with hindsight, and what you learned that you'll carry into future projects.]