Another crazy idea of mine

I had a thought that it would be possible to use an old Palm PDA (like a Palm VX - about £10 off the bay of e) as an electronic target. You'd need someway of reducing the pellet power to that of a stylus tap. I'm not sure of that bit but some kind of absorbant material. A small bit of Palm software would be needed to translate the tap position to serial code for the serial port (not USB!) that these old Palms have. You then link the serial port to a laptop (old cheap one again) near you to use as the scorer and display. Again some software needs to be written here.

I have images in my head of many shot up Palm PDAs whilst trying to select an appropriate pellet absorbing material. Mind you you could use an iPhone or iPad

Has anyone used the currently available professional electronic targets and how do they sense the pellet strike position?

Are they worthwhile?

Thanks for your thoughts.