Golf ball with electrical components
A golf ball comprising piezoelectric material and a wireless transmitter is disclosed herein. The golf ball also comprises at least one of an integrated circuit having a gyroscope, a magnetometer, and a BLUETOOTH low energy (BTLE) radio, and at least one battery.
1 . An entertainment venue comprising:
a plurality of targets positioned in an outfield of the entertainment venue, each of the plurality of targets comprising at least one receiver;
a plurality of hitting bays, each of the plurality of hitting bays comprising a golf ball dispenser and a graphical display unit;
a plurality of golf balls, each of the plurality of golf balls comprising a piezoelectric material connected to a computational device comprising a processor, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer, a battery and a wireless transmitter;
wherein the piezoelectric material is activated when the golf ball is struck by a player which causes the battery to power the computational device to generate ball content including an identification of the golf ball, and instructs the wireless transmitter to transmit a data signal which is read by the at least one receiver, wherein the at least one receiver transmits the ball content of the data signal to a database for analysis and display on graphical display unit in the hitting bay where the golf ball originated.