Schlagwort: Robotic Card Dealer

  • This automated machine shuffles and deals cards so you don’t have to

    This automated machine shuffles and deals cards so you don’t have to

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    Shuffling and dealing is very serious business when you’re playing any card game that puts money on the line, like poker. Even when the stakes aren’t that high, poor shuffling or dealing can drive a family apart. If you’re tired of being criticized for your card-handling skills, maybe you should build this automatic card dealer and shuffler designed by VUBGROUP1.

    VUBGROUP1 consists of electromechanical engineering students at Bruface (The Brussels Faculty of Engineering) and this machine was a project for a mechatronics course. It is capable of both shuffling and dealing cards. Both of those subsystems work in a similar manner: DC motors spin wheels that grip the top card and push it out.

    To shuffle, the user splits the deck and loads the two halves. The machine then pushes the cards together in semi-random order into the pre-deal area. That probably isn’t enough for a true shuffle, so it might be worth running the deck through a few times. From the pre-deal area, the machine spits out a selected number of cards, pivots on a stepper motor, and the repeats until all hands have been dealt. 

    An Arduino UNO Rev3 board controls that entire process according to user parameters set through a simple interface consisting of a 16×2 character LCD and push buttons. The enclosure is laser-cut MDF held together by M3 screws and there are a handful of 3D-printed parts, such as the gears attached to the motors.

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    We think it is safe to say that the students received an A+ on this project. 

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  • Create this card-dealing robot to streamline your poker nights

    Create this card-dealing robot to streamline your poker nights

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    Arduino Team — February 1st, 2022

    If you’ve ever dealt cards the “wrong way” among serious poker players, then you know that some people do not take the dealing process lightly. You must deal cards in the proper order, one to each player before starting back at the first, without ever showing a card. If that sounds like a hassle to you, you can build this card-dealing robot designed by Mr Innovative.

    This simple robot accepts a standard deck of playing cards and deals a preset number of cards to a preset number of players. We would like to see it have some sort of interface to select the number of players and how many cards they receive, but that would be easy to add to the design. It is small enough to fit on any card table and can deal at a fast pace without flinging cards too far.

    An Arduino Nano board controls the robot. Mr Innovative used that with a custom multipurpose PCB that he designed for his many projects. In this case, it lets the Arduino drive both a stepper motor and a DC motor. The stepper motor rotates the entire upper assembly on a Lazy Susan-like turntable to point at each player position. The DC motor spins a gripper wheel that flings the top card of the deck. The stepper motor gears and the deck hopper are 3D-printed. A rubber band provides tension to keep the gripper wheel against the cards.

    Sadly for those of us lacking in card handling skills, this robot cannot shuffle the cards before dealing.

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