This week I started to 3D print the dealer/shuffler enclosure, but ran into some issues. Our model worked fine, but it was much too large to print and would cost too much. Even after making adjustments to the dealer tray model’s design and material thickness, the cost was still very steep for a full model. We are most likely going to pivot to only printing three card trays rather than six, to still show the rotating functionality of our dealer but not have to pay for a full model. Unfortunately, since each tray would take approximately 23 hours to print, we will not have them ready for the demo on Monday, but we do have the models.
This affects our schedule a little bit because it pushes back testing of the dealer and shuffler, but since we need to 3D print less we are saving time on that. We won’t have to adjust much in the schedule, we will just have to 3D print the trays at the same time as assembling the shuffler and dealer motors this coming week.