Automatic Card Shuffler and Dealer

For a capstone project in my senior year of high school, I created an automatic card shuffler and dealer. I made this in my Mechatronics class over a period of four and a half weeks. I took a card shuffler and an Uno Attack card shooter as my main pieces. I modified the button on the shuffler to a more convenient place and added a wedge where the cards would normally fall, so that they fell out on an incline. From that incline, the cards would fall down a ramp and into the card dealer (modified Uno Attack card shooter). I took out the circuit that was originally in the card shooter, and created one of my own on a micro controller. I used PBASIC to program the micro controller to shoot out cards for specific games. For example, it would shoot two cards to two players if two people wanted to play Texas Hold’em. The card dealer was attached to a servo so it could move to different positions where different players would be sitting. It was a very neat project and I learned a lot more about PBASIC and felt accomplished when the final product was completed.