How Do Card Shuffle Machines Work???

Please be careful with those Rayovacs- I had them in a device that I never use and they started leaking after 2 months. Previously, I had a different brand of batteries in the same device for years, and there never was a problem.

Because of my height it is usually necessary to have that downward angle of the camera to be able to see the bench in the same shot. Because of the wide aspect ratio of HD, the vertical is very limited. If I were really short or if people would prefer a really far away wide angle shot of me then framing would be much less of a problem.

Fran Blanche

Hi Fran, I just joined your patreonism, b/c I love all the videos of yours I have seen until now. What I do wonder is why you take a high camera stand , as if you are looking up to us, virtually making us look down on you. That's not how I regard you at all. Would you consider a more level relation to us?

Man, it's always terrible, but being that young it is extra hard. Wish you well.

About the Open Closed, wonder if there's a model that has a spring clip mechanism (but like CD/DVD trays), would also explain these half moon cut-outs in the bottom of that tray. And explain why it is falling out in this model -lol

That was a most delightful video!

Essential tremor? I feel your struggle. I've recently got the same diagnosis (although I'm in my 20s). Mundane stuff gets complicated, like eating soup. Also no more lab work or SMD soldering for me. Meh, gotta show the universe that your will is still strong, even if the body slowly fails! :)

Quite interesting. Never seen one before and it didn't do at all what I expected. So it's really a machine that interleaves the two stacks of cards. I wonder if there's an expensive Vegas grade one that really does a thorough shuffle in one pass with a crypto secure randomisation function.

At $US12 a deck, I could mail you some. Here in Europe I have seen them from €3 to as much as €15 per deck. I guess if I sent them as gifts, we could dodge the customs. Shipping can't be much either.

Rocco Rizzo

Interesting. Always wondered how they worked.

William Alsing

Yea, that's a good tip.

Fran Blanche

Yes

Fran Blanche

You are right

Two separate motors gives more chance of randomness, as like in flashing LED's, they are never identical in their performance, however if they were linked, there couldn't be random shuffling as the both sides would always be in sync.

Mike Hughes

If there was only one shuffler motor and the two sides were mechanically linked wouldn’t it be less random? Also how could you get a link between the two mechanisms when the cards end up dropping between them onto the shuffled card tray.

Better cards: two pack of Copaq cards is $16 on Amazon. Great cards!

R Brooks

Of course if the two sides were synchronized, you would get less randomness which is the opposite of what you want in a card shuffler. It's a card shuffler, not a card alternator.

Lennart Sorensen

Also, plenty of places specify that you need 7 shuffles for a deck of 52 cards to statistically do a good job randomizing them. So 2 or 3 won't do it.

Lennart Sorensen

A pack of cards is $12 on ebay? A 9 pack of bicycle cards is $21 Canadian on amazon.

Lennart Sorensen

Oh well, now the magic is gone...

On things like that, if I have to get inside, I usually move the feet just off the screw holes (if there's room). That way if I ever have to get in again, no need deal with the feet.

Michael Aichlmayr

I wonder if the shuffler could handle an old deck with it's creases and irregularities.

Dr Andy Hill