Card Shuffling Machine
This product is still very much a work in progress, with the first prototype coming soon. The idea is to design a compact and low cost card shuffling module which can be integrated into a table. My design uses a dispensing cart (seen on the left) which raises and lowers to allow the user to access the cards. Then, the rack with multiple slots on the right moves up and down. The rack on the right moves to a random bin, then the dispenser on the left inserts one card into the slot. The power to the dispensing motors in the cart on the left will be monitored to ensure a proper dispense has occurred. This repeats until the deck is nearly through, after which the fork like item will swipe to the left and empty out the right cart back into the left one.
The design makes use of stepper motors and linear rails to achieve linear motion, and uses a raspberry pi to control it. The eventual plan is to move this to a stm32 based custom pcb with stepper drivers built in. Stretch goals also include using a camera in the free area on the bottom left of the image to view which card is up next and allow the device to verify the full deck is present and unmodified.
The design makes use of stepper motors and linear rails to achieve linear motion, and uses a raspberry pi to control it. The eventual plan is to move this to a stm32 based custom pcb with stepper drivers built in. Stretch goals also include using a camera in the free area on the bottom left of the image to view which card is up next and allow the device to verify the full deck is present and unmodified.
