Rigged Card Sorting Machine - ALWAYS Get The Hand You Want! 

This can also be used to put the cards back into the box in the correct order when you are done playing!

Your RU-vid channel is very underrated. Glad I stumbled upon it today!

Great video. Now really convinced me that casinos is stealing my money right my very eyes with the "shuffles".

It might raise some suspicions when it takes 5 minutes to "shuffle" the deck. Really cool project though.

it's so nice when the youtube algorithm coughs up something I'm interested in watching. Apparently herring bone gears can be quieter.

The amount of system integration work that you're able to make work reliably is amazing. Amazing work.

Add a "sort" mode as well, for people that wanna get an organized deck on demand. :)

Silicone lubricant man, should help a fair bit with the noise in the gears.

Dude you need to keep it up. This was amazing. I just watched the whole thing without blinking.

Nice that it can start from an unordered deck with card recognition; quite a project! In some competitions (bridge, for instance) all tables need to play the exact same hands. They use devices to create a series of identical decks. But building your own is of couse way more satisfying, and a nice project indeed!

“I’ll see yah in a few more years” 😂😂 gosh I hope not. Amazing video Andrew! This channel is one of my favorites and I can’t wait to see what you do next!

Good to see you back. This is honestly a pretty cool and involved project.

If you enjoyed this project, please check out some of my other videos and consider subscribing. I'm releasing new project videos every month! ru-vid.com

Well shot, well edited, well narrated, straight to the point with enough information it's interesting but not too much that it gets boring or confusing. Oh, also a great idea that was executed well Amazing work, instantly subscribed at the end of the video!

Nice to see you back. Hope you are doing well.

Brilliant work! Congrats on nailing it!

Just discovered this channel now through the video. Impressive. Liked and subscribed.

I love these kinds of projects and videos. Keep it up, subbed!

Thank you, a lot, for showing and explaining this. Very useful. And amazing great work you did, well done!

This is super cool project! Nicely done

Evil! Subbed. Two ideas. First for the feeder, have a look at how printers run their rollers. They almost invariably have three: pick, feed, and separation. On cheaper machines the sep roller is just a pad. Anyways ideally the pick roller (the one that sits on the stack of paper) rotates along with the feed roller, and the sep roller is either stationary or even turning slightly backwards. That's what prevents double feeds. The pick and feed rollers are usually on sprag clutches so they can freewheel. After those three, you'll have two driven pinch rollers that actually deliver the paper. Second...there should be an even more evil and harder to detect algo in the evil shuffler: make player x really lucky. Don't specify any one hand, just make sure that x always has a better hand than everyone else. Maybe they'd even occasionally lose a hand just so nobody gets suspicious.

This is a great project and video! Glad I found this channel. You could maybe add a physical button on the device itself to do the regular random shuffle so that mode can be used without having to open up a browser (if that's the most common use I mean haha)

And of course, there is in fact a method to prevent just this kind of deck ordering shenanigans: The Cut.

What fun you had creating this! Here's something you might like to add.... a "Pack Sorted by suit" with choices of how you want the pack sorted... Ace-King (or reverse?) but so you can pick Spades/Diamonds/Clubs/Hearts or any combination of the suits?

Damn, I didn't even realize I was subbed to you, bought a 3up kit wayyyy back when. Cool project!

great job ! you are quite a inventor! I am thinking of making a simpler version - the one that will just shuffle cards randomly into 4 stacks; no need to recognize cards etc.

OK now I can get into agriculture! :D Amazing work, bud!

Hoping to see v2 of this soon!

Love the content Andrew! I vote you make a video showing off your process for building super simple 1-pager GUIs for python with HTML and PMP.

that's a really cool shuffler. i have one of those cheap noisy ones. lol i barley used it. i was tying to make a card distributor or electric dealer 12 years ago and instead made a device that throws an entire deck around the room in a matter of a few seconds. it was too fun to fix.

Welcome back! You should update the software to inform you if any cards are missing.

Nice project!

This absolutely is what shufflemaster patent shows. Great video and great work showing us. This is definetly what the casinos do. I miss the good old hand shufflers now they say most states banned hand shufflers. No its banned bc they want more $$

underrated channel !

This is pretty fantastic. It would be fun for, say, having two identically shuffled decks and see who does better at Klondike.

I can’t imagine the time and effort. Wow!

Hello stranger! Glad to see you’re still with us!

Nice recreation of what we did in the mid 70's (OCR and handler not cards but the concept is the same) Personally I believe the rotary storage is a better method, but that is my opinion When you see the shuffle master sort the cards the first time this should tell you they have full control

Sidenote, that paper feeder will be of use with some OS Plotter/inkjet printer development !

I appreciate your oxford comma.

I want this. Actually what really got me looking was less poker, as its easy to shuffle for poker with some practice, but there are so many board and card games with even larger decks and cards that I want to sleeve, that decks become difficult to shuffle, and it would be great to have something with a bigger hopper that could shuffle up large decks while the rest of a game is being setup.

Great project. And the reason that most state gaming regulations required all cards to hand cut is to disable any chance that an ASM can be hacked and used to cheat.

Amazing invention ...First time to your channel...You mastered 3D printing, engineering, and coding to create this machine...Bravo.... Imagine what the big casinos are investing in, to gain advantage over players... Do the Shufflemaster one or two models have software/cameras to detect suits in pokers games??? I've been playing for years and been witnessing some extremely suspect hands by dealers..

This is seriously so awesome

Hi, great vid. Just had an idea for the dispenser to make it more reliable. Where you have the pair of rollers spitting the cards out, the top one could briefly rotate in the opposite direction, so if there is a second card on top it gets put back in the deck while the bottom one continues but if there is just one card it will get sucked slightly in then spat back out again. Alternate idea, put the roller on a moving arm that goes on top of the deck so it only pushes the topmost card out at a time, if you springload the arm so the downwards force (and move the tray up a bit for each card dispensed) is minimal the top card wont have enough friction with the one under it to drag it along. Have the arm mechanized to move out of the way (idk with a servo or something) so when the shuffled cards are being inserted it can get out of the way.

Bro, did you consider tagging your video under the section of 'horror' ..This is the stuff that fuels nightmares. These casino machines will flat out put people in the streets.

This could be modified for "tele-IRL card playing" i bet (pun?). Kind of like what @Stuff Made Here did for the automatic pool stick?

How does this channel only have 24k subscribers???

Amazing! take a look at the paper pickup mechanism on consumer printers, it might give you some inspiration on how to improve the card dispenser

Wow! Genius! Subbed.

Love the video! But there is a cut by the dealer once it's done. There are even ways to set up the deck where cutting it anywhere will still result in a rigged result.

feels good to be a new memver

Super Cool! Most of the issues you were having with the cards, the biggest one being able to get a single card, I would have to say were the cards. Bicycle cards are great cards, but if you were to use them at a NLTH tournament, they would last about 10 hands max. If you had some plastic poker cards, the Copag Poker Jumbo are great around $10/pack, the cards would become a constant, not a variable. They would always be, and only be, as slick as when you begin, unlike the Bicycle which would start one way and continuously change with use. I really want one, but dont think Im at this level yet.

Make an algorithm that makes the interface more simple. Like: which player will win and then it just makes a random situation in which that player will win. Also, you could add a little slide thingy to the end which can rotate. This then automatically distributes the cards to the different players / to the middle. You could add so many cool features in the code.

Man, the casino stuff I learned!

Cool stuff.

Amazing!

You should try using dielectric grease for the noise. It should help out a bit

very impressive!

I'm late to this party, but I think the mechanics can be simplified quite a bit. The movement of the dispenser could replace the movement of the slots module - The slots module doesn't have to move at all and the ejection bar for the slots module can unload all of the slots at once if the dispenser is at the very bottom. This would make the sorting mechanism quicker and would allow you to fit more slots in. If the dispenser was double sided you could have slots on both sides as well, allowing even more slots within a compact space.

This: is in my recommended Me: is not disappointed in the algorithm

You know, when I was a kid, I made a card shuffler (which worked quite well) out of legos. the wheels are perfect for dispensing cards

This is really cool! Why does it only have 1.3k views? :(

You're a genius...

Me: I wonder if I could make a card shuffler that stacks the deck... RU-vid: Here you go

amazing!

Hey I am a senior in highschool and I’m making my own version of this for my engineering project and was wondering if you have a wiring diagram for it and what voltage you used as your power source for the micro motor on the card shooter. Great project and I’m having a lot of fun building it!

You spend two years working on this to finally beat your friends at poker. Then the dealer takes the cards from the machine and cuts them.

crazy. it's a bit slow, but still cool!

How about the shuffle machine Texas Holdem when playing against other players?

Hey I’ve never built a robot before, I only just bought a 3D printer last year, and I have minimal experience coding. I think I’m going to try designing my own version of your shuffler :)

You should add a unshuffle option to put it back into the order of a new deck!

Just FYI....most companies that create shufflers don't sell their products not because of hacking but rather their model of business is based on leasing their products to casinos. They would much rather keep getting a monthly paycheck from the casino in using their machines than a one-off payment (not enough casinos open up each week for them to profit off of). The lease has stipulations that the casino has to adhere to or lose possible millions in lawsuits, this allows the shuffle companies to control all aspects of their units. You don't get access because you are not a casino....and contracts are usually set in years and numbers (such as 5 machines at $25,000 per month for 1 year, as an example). There is no "hacking" because unloading data requires a password authentication and a hardware key, otherwise you are physically hacking which can easily be caught by casino managers and surveillance. The software has several modes based on the number of games the casino provides, allowing a machine to be swapped from table to table as needed.....and it also has a sorting and recall function. Despite what conspiracies are out there, no, the machines do not have a "set hand" function as not only would that violate commission rules, but also leaves a vulnerability for casino losses by the shuffle company (which leaves them liable on those losses because the code is theirs by lease). Yes, the machine can sort and recall, but that's just reading, not setting. Just a little FYI

Great design and explanation. I'm wondering if you could estimate build cost (assuming access to a 3d printer, say), and say anything about "maintenance" of the machine given regular use (eg do you need to recalibrate the camera, launcher etc regularly)? Sorry if these questions were answered in the video and I missed them.

This is a very impressive machine that goes well beyond the scope of anything I desire from a shuffler. However I hope you can push me in the right direction, I'm playing a board game called Talisman which has several decks containing hundreds of cards, with the main "Adventure Deck" being over 600 cards with all the expansions and is a tedious pain to set up. I'm looking for a shuffler that can shuffle US Mini sized cards and won't destroy them either. I've seen some of the demos of the cheap mass produced shufflers and they look like they'd wreck these cards. Manual hand cranked versions seem more viable but they would still take too long and don't seem to provide a good shuffle judging from some videos I've seen. Apologies if this was impertinent to ask but I'm at my wits end trying to find something good that won't break the bank and your video came up in the results.

OCD can be emulated by comparing all master images with the scanned one and take the one with the highest % score. It's not how OCD works, but it's a lot faster.

you could greatly decrease deck restoration time by pushing the bottom 4 then the top 4

Can you give me a hint on the research you did to figure out a roller strategy? I am building a MTG card sorter that will also generate me a CSV output to track my collection. Im worried about handling cards safely but also to process and scan quickly. Have you noticed any damage to your playing cards during usage of this type of roller?

Can’t wait to see the Uno version

I feel like the image recognition part can be done a lot faster with a tiny AI model that can run on raspberrypis.

i had a friend who had a cheapo shuffler. you split the deck in 2 parts and it would shove the cards randomly from each pile in the center, do it a few times and it would be shuffled

I never clicked on a video so fast

When regular shuffling it mixes it twice, the cheat ine only does it once, but what if it shuffles it in a specific order the first time so it knows where each card is and it will be faster separating all of it

the dispenser would colloquially be called a " shoe " in theory , you could have a realistic 1 , 2 , 3 deck-shoe game of blackjack - which was invented to stop card counting , the more decks in the shoe, the harder they are to count

Awesome, would be nice if it could sort my magic the gathering cards.

This is a StuffMadeHere level project, why doesn't it have more views?

Due to strong interest in this project (and wanting to recreate it) I did some research calculations. I found that with 8 bins the chance of the bottom card ending on top is about 790x larger than the top card ending on top. This quickly decreases to 2.3 times after 2 shuffles and to 1.1 (neglectable) after 3 shuffles. I thought these results might be interesting ; ) I hope it's OK to use this concept for inspiration for a future design project of mine.

Bro, have I have an ad blocker and you are the only channel that I turn it off on

5:40 Making a "code explanation video for NERDS" video or something similar for projects may allow for moar youtube treadmill/algorhythm feeding, as well as helping others learn how to do the "behind the scenes" (granted may be other sources to learn obviously, but moar videos/content = moar win?) (also would require NLVE-ing time which is ...eh (at least for me) so may not be worth it in your opinion, just throwing this idea out there)

THIS WOULD BE A FUN PRANK WITH YOUR FRIENDS!!!

wow this is so cool, I'm not good at poker but now I can be!

Very impressive! See everyone should have a hobby to learn how to cheat.... I mean create. Thanks I am a software IT guy and most people have no idea how complicated this project is from concept to implementation. Now if we could get government officials not to cheat that does include lying..Now I need to learn python.

Given the ability to set the deck order, and read the deck order, you could actually shuffle in software, and then just build the deck to that shuffle. No need to run through excess shuffles. I'm guessing only 2 would be necessary.

It looks like the image processing is taking way longer than your mechanics can handle. (@11:34 you can see the shuffler just waiting.) It's worth looking into some form of faster computing.

Hello, i am building something similar but not for cards. How did you managed to take just one card from deck? Its realy is more tricky than it sounds. Thank you And great project 🙂

How about if the dealer is required to cut the deck? It makes it 1000x more complicated.. The only way to assure player x wins the pot out of a 9 player Texas Hold'em table, (without the dealer who cuts the cards knowing) is to fix the deck so that 52 combinations all having the same player winning. No matter what point in the deck u start from. Since there are a millions of possible combos, u can easily write a script of code that will make the player u wish to win, win every hand or every other hand to not make it obvious. You just need to tell the computer exactly how many players will be dealt in, and it could be done seamlessly.

amazing

How does it do with a new deck of cards? I see your deck is well used... I challenge you to make a V2 of this, More compact, and quieter, and make it so it slides into the top of a poker table. 😉

So I know this is an old video, but how well would this work with sleeved magic the gathering cards?

I am trying to investigate a casino in South East Asia. I suspect cheating in Blackjack but if you are so kind, can you provide a few tips on how to identify the possible card shifting going on? Thank you for your help