Robot Arm Playing Card Dealer

Me and two friends built this robot for our mechatronics class at CMU in 2004. It was capable of shuffling cards, cutting the deck twice, and dealing cards to any number of players.

At the time I had a poor quality digital camera that could only take 15 seconds of film, so I was never able to film an entire successful run. I made sure I included the bad prototype runs in the video, but towards the end of the class we got it to work perfectly 75% of the time. The other 25% was due to some occasional mysterious encoder error we were never able to figure out.

To learn more about the design, check out:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_arm_card_dealer.shtml

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• robot
• arm
• playing
• cards
• deal
• cut
• deck
• servo

[STINKINPARK69]

when does he become self aware?

[palmisano]

@STINKINPARK69 See my more recent videos for the self-aware type =P

[fstlast123]

What is the name of the music, song or what ever you call classical music

[palmisano]

Grieg - In The Hall of The Mountain King

[TrickyNekro]

Have you heard the Tesla coil version???

[palmisano]

yeap, someone posted it in the videos section of SoR awhile back . . .

[romik25oct]

very very slow....if i was a gambler at that table......i would of lost my temper long time ago

[fpstina]

with the intensity of your closing music i was expecting to see some much faster action... i recommend a slower song... or a faster robot :)

[BrodakBred]

I can deal cards qucker by legs than this. :D

[killerbeenl]

Needs some debugging buth hey thats nice