3D Printed Shuffler (1 Viewer)

[jamesjkim]

Who can make one?

 

[demonnic]

Hmm, the project is not very well documented but all the pieces seem to be there. Sounds like ~$200 in parts and given the dearth of instructions and the like I expect it will take many hours of cursing and tweaking to get it all right. By the time it's all said and done you could probably just buy a shuffletech or the upcoming leshuffler (which uses a very similar shuffling technique but in a smaller form factor and not running an rpi to control it) for the same or similar money to paying someone to build one for you.

I wouldn't build one with the cheating capabilities, nor the webapp even. Probably just wire up a switch to start the random shuffle and then present the deck when done, similar to the deckmate.

That being said, I am intrigued and may wind up building one of these eventually for the fun of it rather than purchasing a shuffler. Easier to justify $200 and a project to myself than the $500+ for a prebuilt one for some reason.

 

[Sparkynutz]

Hmm, the project is not very well documented but all the pieces seem to be there. Sounds like ~$200 in parts and given the dearth of instructions and the like I expect it will take many hours of cursing and tweaking to get it all right. By the time it's all said and done you could probably just buy a shuffletech or the upcoming leshuffler (which uses a very similar shuffling technique but in a smaller form factor and not running an rpi to control it) for the same or similar money to paying someone to build one for you.

I wouldn't build one with the cheating capabilities, nor the webapp even. Probably just wire up a switch to start the random shuffle and then present the deck when done, similar to the deckmate.

That being said, I am intrigued and may wind up building one of these eventually for the fun of it rather than purchasing a shuffler. Easier to justify $200 and a project to myself than the $500+ for a prebuilt one for some reason.

Hmm. Giving me some ideas.
Sure would be cool to come out with a basic model without all these bells and whistles for less than $200.
Especially if a preprogrammed plug and play board to could be made.
The rest looks doable. Gears can be bought reasonably cheap as well for better quality. 3d printing the panels and larger items could still be done tho.

 

[jamesjkim]

Hmm. Giving me some ideas.
Sure would be cool to come out with a basic model without all these bells and whistles for less than $200.
Especially if a preprogrammed plug and play board to could be made.
The rest looks doable. Gears can be bought reasonably cheap as well for better quality. 3d printing the panels and larger items could still be done tho.

Let's go! I am happy to seed fund!

 

[demonnic]

You could certainly take the project as a base and streamline it for being able to produce them for cheaper, but the first few will be pretty expensive while you're nailing the design.

Definitely worth considering doing though, especially since you're already tooled up to an extent. If you get it to a decent price point for sale then I'd even forego the project to support your efforts and pick yours up instead =)

 

[Sparkynutz]

Sounds pretty labor intensive.
I could probably manage to figure it all out but rather find someone that's better at the electronics part than me especially to make sure it's random and hopefully not as easily rigged.
Finding out the shuffler is rigged would kill sales fast. Atleast ethically hosted games.

 

[Sparkynutz]

You could certainly take the project as a base and streamline it for being able to produce them for cheaper, but the first few will be pretty expensive while you're nailing the design.

Definitely worth considering doing though, especially since you're already tooled up to an extent. If you get it to a decent price point for sale then I'd even forego the project to support your efforts and pick yours up instead =)

Really wouldn't mind buying a Le shuffler to get a better idea on workings etc then start my own design from scratch.

I'm working on a few other much less intricate models but much more intracate than my typical ones. Baby steps....

 

[demonnic]

Yeah, the LeShuffler looks really nice and if I was going to go for a commercial shuffler that's the one I'd be waiting on. Both it and the shuffletech are just more expensive than I'm looking to spend to solve something I don't really view as a problem currently. But this would be a fun project, comparatively cheap, and easier to customize a cabinet around.

 

[TheRealTeddyKGB]

Who can make one?

Oh NOW i understand why I finally got an invite to your game!

 

[LotsOfChips]

Seems to me that requiring a cut would pretty much overcome the stacked deck issue. Or am I missing something?

 

[ekricket]

For home games only - one issue is that all these manufacturers target card room or casinos.

For home game use, why don’t we design a mechanical shuffler that does what people do - halve the deck and then force the two halves together. Something that’s about the size of a deck of cards, but you can put half the deck in one side, half in the other, then push them together for a shuffled deck. You don’t have to ruffle with your thumbs, just holding the deck lightly about 2/3 of the way back lets the cards seperate enough at the front so they they can be “leaved” together.

 

[CoolDude53]

I could take on the software aspect of this if someone more familiar with Cad / the mechanical side could work on the physical design.

I might just use this as an excuse to learn that stuff…

 

[demonnic]

I mean, you could always remix one of the manual options to attach to a small motor.
https://www.printables.com/model/427943-playing-card-shuffler-v3 This one looks like it does a pretty decent job of only passing one card through at a time from either side and is already geared to a central gear. Microstepper motor (cuz it's what you have lying around from 3d printers right?), a simple arduino controller, and < 100 lines of code might be all you need.

 

[demonnic]

https://makerworld.com/en/models/688458 Here's one based on a similar concept which is motorized already. Just a simple switch to turn it on/off.

Now, it is the width of 3 decks of cards since it has to hold half the deck on either side and have space for the shuffled deck in the center, but it seems like a pretty good middle option between the cheap card shufflers available for cheap now and a shuffletech. Video on this one was pretty darn quiet. Then again, you would want to run the deck multiple times and it really only helps with the shuffle part, so do you really want to run it through twice, box cut, run it again, then cut?

Idk, but something to consider. About half the folks in my game have issues shuffling for one reason or another so even just having something where one person could be responsible for running the deck through the machine properly could be a benefit to the whole table. But the one linked in the OP is nice and fully automatic and I believe would produce enough random variation that you could get away with only running it once I'd think. Closest homebuilt DIY thing to a deckmate I've seen yet.

 

[CoolDude53]

So I kinda jumped head first into this. I've ordered custom pcbs and all the 3d printed parts and hardware. Will keep you guys updated on how it goes - probably won't get everything until late december.

 

[TankingRowlet]

https://makerworld.com/en/models/688458 Here's one based on a similar concept which is motorized already. Just a simple switch to turn it on/off.

Now, it is the width of 3 decks of cards since it has to hold half the deck on either side and have space for the shuffled deck in the center, but it seems like a pretty good middle option between the cheap card shufflers available for cheap now and a shuffletech. Video on this one was pretty darn quiet. Then again, you would want to run the deck multiple times and it really only helps with the shuffle part, so do you really want to run it through twice, box cut, run it again, then cut?

Idk, but something to consider. About half the folks in my game have issues shuffling for one reason or another so even just having something where one person could be responsible for running the deck through the machine properly could be a benefit to the whole table. But the one linked in the OP is nice and fully automatic and I believe would produce enough random variation that you could get away with only running it once I'd think. Closest homebuilt DIY thing to a deckmate I've seen yet.

That looks exactly like this but slower, which you could buy for $15-20.

Although now it may be possible to somehow stack 5 of these 3D printed ones on top of each other and somehow make it alternate between riffle, random pile, riffle, random pile, riffle on it's way down...