Has anyone put an LCD in the middle of their table? (1 Viewer)

[Al Azouri]

My cat would love that!

Interestingly enough, the idea originated from a device I created for my dogs. Instead of buttons and a joystick to control it, I just programmed it to slowly move to random positions every few seconds. It kept the dogs busy for hours.

 

[2jzMk3]

I reading LSD

There has been a few times that I played poker on LSD, I think it was equally if not more entertaining that an LCD on the poker table.

 

[DeeVee8]

Screw it. I'm just handing everyone VR goggles and telling them they're on their own.

 

[Al Azouri]

Holy laser beams batman! Can you show what the effect looks like on the table?

I made a video but I’m not sure how to post it.

 

[slurpeee]

I made a video but I’m not sure how to post it.

So you figured out how to engineer a dealer controlled laser system from scratch for your table.... But posting a video here has you stumped ??? Love it.

 

[BGinGA]

It does a few things:

It starts to spin when the action is taking longer than average.

So do I.

 

[markleteenie]

I made a video but I’m not sure how to post it.

I have to see this video...you could post it to youtube and make it private and share the link here...

 

[Al Azouri]

I have to see this video...you could post it to youtube and make it private and share the link here...

I'll try to get that done

 

[Al Azouri]

I have to see this video...you could post it to youtube and make it private and share the link here...

Ok here goes. Let me know if they don’t work.

Video 1
Video 2
Video 3

The thing is currently on the fritz (I think my kids played with it). It cycling through all the positions quickly. But you’ll get the idea.

 

[markleteenie]

Ok here goes. Let me know if they don’t work.

Video 1
Video 2
Video 3

The thing is currently on the fritz (I think my kids played with it). It cycling through all the positions quickly. But you’ll get the idea.

Whoa that’s pretty crazy. That’s really interesting though- A lot of potential applications.

Thanks for sharing the videos!

 

[Al Azouri]

Whoa that’s pretty crazy. That’s really interesting though- A lot of potential applications.

Thanks for sharing the videos!

Other applications? What did you have in mind?

 

[markleteenie]

Well if you can do make it do any sort of writing (not sure about this one), then you could post the dealer's choice game: Hold 'em, Omaha, SOHE, etc.
Again, if you could do writing - then you could post tournament blinds.

I have a timer that goes off and we do bomb pots every so often. You could program it to do some crazy patterns or something to signify different types of timed events? Like a silent timer.

 

[Al Azouri]

I have a timer that goes off and we do bomb pots every so often. You could program it to do some crazy patterns or something to signify different types of timed events? Like a silent timer.

Good idea. I already have it doing something like that. I can set it to trace a small circle (like video 3) at a player position at random intervals or every n-1 players. We use that to indicate dealer’s choice.
Also, it keeps track of the number of hands played and at the end of the night I can have it blink out the number for me.

 

[markleteenie]

Also, it keeps track of the number of hands played and at the end of the night I can have it blink out the number for me.

How does it keep track? when the laser is blocked it counts as one hand?

 

[Al Azouri]

How does it keep track? when the laser is blocked it counts as one hand?

Not sure what you mean by blocked. It just adds one every time the pointer moves to the left and subtracts one every time I move it to the right. Which reminds me, I also have a button that will pick a random player to get the button when we first start.