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How to build a programmable card dealing machine

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LurfysMa

Jan 1, 1970
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How difficult would it be to build a device that would sort a deck of
standard poker/bridge playing cards (52 cards, 13 suits,
AKQJT98765432) into 4 13-card bridge hands using data obtained from a
PC specifying whoch cards go to each of the 4 hands?

The computer would have a table with 52 rows and 2 columns. The first
column would be the 52 cards (1=2C, 2=3C, 3=4C, ... 52=AS or something
like that) and the second column would be 1/2/3/4.

The device would need:

a. Some kind of paper-handling mechanism that could move the card from
the deck into one of the four bins,

b. A scanner / OCR devide to "read" the corner of the card,

c. Some logic to look the card up in the table and figure out which
bins to send it to,

d. Some sort of mechanism for shunting the cards into the proper bins,
and

e. A way to send/receive data to/from the PC.

Assuming this is not a million-dollar project, where would I go to get
it made or who would I talk to? I live in SiIicon Valley so there
ought to be the right sort of engineers handy.

Is anyone interested in working on such a project?

PS: There are some devices already in existence and I am trying to get
more information about them. A couple of them are at:

http://www.jannersten.se/html/dealing.html

but it looks like they only work with proprietary software and you may
have to buy each bridge hand. I am checking into that.
 
LurfysMa said:
How difficult would it be to build a device that would sort a deck of
standard poker/bridge playing cards (52 cards, 13 suits,
AKQJT98765432) into 4 13-card bridge hands using data obtained from a
PC specifying whoch cards go to each of the 4 hands?

The computer would have a table with 52 rows and 2 columns. The first
column would be the 52 cards (1=2C, 2=3C, 3=4C, ... 52=AS or something
like that) and the second column would be 1/2/3/4.

The device would need:

a. Some kind of paper-handling mechanism that could move the card from
the deck into one of the four bins,

b. A scanner / OCR devide to "read" the corner of the card,

c. Some logic to look the card up in the table and figure out which
bins to send it to,

d. Some sort of mechanism for shunting the cards into the proper bins,
and

e. A way to send/receive data to/from the PC.

Assuming this is not a million-dollar project, where would I go to get
it made or who would I talk to? I live in SiIicon Valley so there
ought to be the right sort of engineers handy.

Is anyone interested in working on such a project?

PS: There are some devices already in existence and I am trying to get
more information about them. A couple of them are at:

http://www.jannersten.se/html/dealing.html

but it looks like they only work with proprietary software and you may
have to buy each bridge hand. I am checking into that.

Many bridge clubs have these units allready as they have been around
for some time. They use cards with a barcode on them. The software can
generate random hands or download hands for competitions and it does
all the scoreing ect. Your about 10 years too late with your invention.
 
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