Senior Design Expo 2019

Card Dealer 3000
Andrew DePerro, Connor Finn, John
Michael Long, Brian Nicholas
Advisor: Dr. Joshua Browne
The Card Dealer 3000 is a compact,
table-sized, card dealing machine. To begin
your hours of card game fun, simply load a
pre-shuffled deck of cards into the machine,
select your card game of choice, select the
number of players, and the Card Dealer 3000
completes all the tedious dealing work for
you! The Card Dealer 3000 features a
removable card shoe for easy card deck
loading, an efficient flipping mechanism, a
ranged card shooter, programmability for a
wide array of card games, and the ability to
accommodate a variable number of players.
This device has the ability to do
anything a casino dealer can do once the card
deck is loaded into the shoe. It is equipped
with 5 individual systems that combine into
one amazing product. The first, and most
important system of the Card Dealer 3000 is
the user interface. A custom made controller
is utilized to house a LCD board to display
the options of the device as well as a 9-
character keypad to choose the desired
options. Once the options have been selected,
the Card dealer 3000 is ready to do the rest.
The card picking system is the first
mechanism the card travels through. After a
shuffled deck is placed into the card shoe and
the card shoe is inserted into the device, a
stepper motor with a foam grip picks the top
card from the deck. This moves the card to
the flipping system. The flipping system uses
a stepper motor with a timing belt to move the
housing in card non-flipping and flipping
orientation. In the non-flipping orientation,
the card moves from the card shoe to an
angled slide that deposits the card to the
shooting system. In the flipping orientation,
the card moves from the card shoe onto a thin
angled arm to flip the card along its stable
axis. The card then flips onto the same angled
slide as the non-flip orientation and is
deposited to the shooting system.
The shooting system is a two motor
system that the card travels through to be
dealt out to a player. A stepper motor with a
foam gripper pushes the card forward on the
angled slide into a compact DC motor. Once
the card comes in contact with the spinning
rod attached to the DC motor, it is dealt to the
player. The compact DC motor has the ability
to deal the card to different distances. The
final system is the rotating system, which
includes a Lazy Susan bearing and a DC
motor with an attached encoder. The encoder
allows the Card Dealer 3000 to rotate
accurately. This is important when the device
is dealing to different players. One last
unique feature about the Card Dealer 3000 is
that it uses RFID technology so that the
machine knows what cards are being dealt to
the players, but more importantly, it knows
what it also has. This is key for certain games
to be successful such as Blackjack.
The Card Dealer 3000 is a portable
device with a sleek design that will surely
impress any guests at your future game night.
It brings the casino to you!
Relevant Standards & Codes:
- ISO 8124-1:2018: Safety of toys -- Part 1:
Safety aspects related to mechanical and
physical properties
- ISO / ASTM52915 - 16 Standard
Specification for Additive Manufacturing
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