Project
| # | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
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| 37 | Automatic Card Deck Sorter |
Alfred Hofmann Kyle Mahler Rocky Daehler |
Sanjana Pingali | proposal1.pdf |
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| # Automatic Card Deck Sorter Kyle Mahler (kmahler3) Alfred Hofmann (alfredh2) Rocky Daehler (walterd2) # Problem Lots of different card games require different setups of the deck before you can start playing, Euchre, for example, requires only cards 9's and above to be played. Short deck poker requires only 6 cards and above to be played. # Solution Myself and my teammates to this problem posit an automatic card deck sorter. This device would use a camera, a raspberry pi, sorting departments, and a mechanical arm of sorts in order to automatically sort the deck of cards based on a given input. The device could be used to separate the deck for a specific game, or even to sort the cards in a specific order (AKA, to rig the deck). Possible extension of this idea could additionally be a mobile app for user input, or also an automatic shuffling featuring when the whole deck is wanted for gameplay. As for the design of this device, we are imagining three different bins for our sorting system. Imagine three bins from left to right. The middle bin is where the cards would originally go, as well as where the camera and mechanical arm are. The left is where we would put our ‘don’t care’ cards, and on the right, we would put all our do care cards. At each card, the camera would scan the corner of the card and identify it using the ML software, then the arm would push it in the appropriate direction. # Subsystem 1 : User Interface Function: Input given by the user to pick what range of card values to accept. Components: Buttons or touchscreen # Subsystem 2 : Camera and Card Recognition Function: Captures images of the corner of the cards and recognizes suit and rank. Components: LED’s inside of the device in order to keep the cards well lit. We have a few options for cameras; Raspberry Pi camera, Arducam mini… etc. # Subsystem 3 : Sorting Arm/System Function: Sorts the cards into one of two bins to start: cards we care about, and cards we do not care about. Components: Rubber tip on metal arm, motor # Subsystem 4 : Control System Function: Manages all logic and communication for the different subsystems to work together. Defines card sorting process and forces action on it by sorting system. Error handling will also be a big part for this. Components: ESP32, STM32, Arduino, etc. These are all options. |
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