This week, Mark and I focused a lot on getting the card shuffler and dealer set up. Now that the final components were printed, we had to work and file down a couple sections that did not work as planned to make more room for our motors to fit in and our cards to go through. We have been setting up and running test circuits with our motors to test the cards shuffling and dealing. We have successfully dealt a card out of our holder with our wheel, but need to work on the positioning of the actual card deck so that the wheel has good access to the deck. We have also successfully gotten the cards to be spit out of the shuffler when we use the motor, but we are ordering one with more torque so it doesn’t get stuck from the weight of the cards on top of it.
Our schedule hasn’t changed much. Mark and I will continue to improve our prototype card dealer and shuffler to have it ready for our demo this Wednesday. Once this is completed, we will start to clean up the wiring and set up of our player area and make an enclosure to more neatly contain it.