Next day next teaser. The Card Scanner for a Trading Card Machine is near completion. An animation helps me to understand my own idea and interaction even more. Besides that, it is also nice to share it

I'm almost finished with my latest project. The Card Scanner for a Trading Card Machine. I should bring it to an end during this week. Until then, I would like to share some teaser with you. Sketching

The sleeve that I designed and created in the last update is a little helper to mount my router in the right position of the milling compass. I mounted my 24mm guide bush to my router sub-base. My sleeve

A little side project for my Card Sorter,.. The small thrust bearing works very well. Now I have to scale it to the 90cm diameter. To do that I need a new tool, a milling compass. I‘ve designed and created

I created a small thrust bearing prototype. In that way I will rotate the whole Sorter table. I tried different technics and materials. Cardboard is not the right material for that job. I used my router,

Original size and arrangement of the 22 boxes! I will create a huge ball bearing. Because of the big number of boxes, the diameter must be around 0.9m. The boxes will orbit around the feeder and scanner

Gravity, sort my trading cards! Source Sadly, is not that easy. As I said in the previous update, the gravity will do the main job. The Card Feeder will sit on the highest point of the machine. The card

Sorting mechanism? Seriously? Yes! No kidding. To be honest, a little bit. I don't want to use a lot of motors, sensors, conveyor belts or a lot of electronics and mechanics in general. The gravity will

I've started at the end of the Card Sorter, which are the card storage boxes. The size of a trading card is 64mm by 89mm. I added 6mm to each side. With that said, a box has the dimensions of 70mm by 95mm

How to create a Trading Card Feeder, Scanner, Analyzer and Sorter - Part 1 Card Feeder Michael Portera's Card Feeder is made out of Lego. It is a top loader and the bottom card will be transported to the

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Hello everyone, some time has passed since the last update. No, the project is not dead, but I had a lot of work with a new way of documentation. I worked on a video that shows you the building process

In the video you can see a small comparison between manual and auto mode. I‘m very happy with the result. For the moment I'm finished with the card feeder. The next big task is the card sorter. I will

The whole machine will be managed by a raspberry pi, even the card feeder. All servo motors will be connected to the adafruit servo bonnet. I experiment with some adafruit switches and the IR break-beams

With a hot glue gun I put all pieces together. I also used some black and white acrylic color to create a little bit of contrast. To whole feeding mechanism is made out of Lego Technic components. I fits

I put the basic shape together, paying attention to different orientations of the corrugated cardboard to make it stable. To make the cardboard even more rigid and solid I glued in some wood and used putty

I'm working on the prototype for the card feeder. I use corrugated cardboard for this. This is my first time working with this material. I love it. 😍 Steepshot IPFS IOS Android Web

A few weeks ago, I stumbled across an interesting article published in the MagPi Magazine Issue 71, Jul 2018. Michael Portera explained there how he built his Trading Card Scanner. Source He also wrote

There are many ways to create knobs and many materials to use. Band saw, jigsaw, belt sander, hand tools, wood, metal, plastic etc. I show you three tools (CNC, scroll saw, hole saw) and two materials

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