Shufflers

[Damontis]

I would go with the Electronic.

[smoothraise]

I would prefer electronic. Although I might want one of each.

[flatline]

Mechanical would seem silly. Why crank a lever when you could just shuffle the cards yourself? An electronic one with rechagable batteries that performed similiarly to a casino shuffler would be pimp as hell, OTOH. Have you made sure your invention does not violate any existing patents?

[Snarf]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Giant piece of crap.

[/ QUOTE ]

[/ QUOTE ]


Loud and obnoxios too. Honestly, you could do it quicker if you knew how to shuffle.

[kodonnell]

[ QUOTE ]
Have you made sure your invention does not violate any existing patents?

[/ QUOTE ]
Yup....and continue to do so. I have probably looked at every patent with the word "shuffler" in it. However, even with a paid patent search, I could never guarantee that I am not infringing somewhere.....in fact, there are cases of people who received patents for their work, to later have someone sue them for infringement and have their patent revoked because the patent examiner missed something. The world of invention is far from perfect.

I'm kinda leaning towards electronic as well. The benefits far exceed the additional cost. In addition, it would then open the casino market to me....WoooHoooo! I am gonna be rich!

[GeniusToad]

[ QUOTE ]


So my question to you is:
Mechanical or Electronic?

So you have a little more info, my retail price goals are:
Mechanical $100-$150
Electronic $250-$400

[/ QUOTE ]

if you can do both that's perfect. although $100 might be asking a lot for mechanical. i'd have to see design to make a complete judgement.

good luck - great plan.

[gmunny]

[ QUOTE ]
For those of you who do not know, I am developing a shuffler which fills the void between the "gift shop" shufflers, and the casino shufflers. I have been developing this for the past year or so and now have a device which will continuously shuffle a deck by turning knobs and pulling levers manually. Still not very practical though.

I am at a point now where I need to make a decision on which way to go and would like some input.

My choices are to go electronic or not. An electronic shuffler would be something to the effect of put the cards in, hit a button, and 30 seconds to a minute later a fully shuffled deck of cards emerge. The other choice is a mechanical version where the operator continuously operates the shuffler using simple mechanics i.e. moving a lever back and forth or moving the ends apart and back together repeatedly. Basically the machine would be powered by the user.

There are clear advantages to both. The mechanical version would not take any batteries or need to be plugged in. The electronic version would be more expensive (probably by about $150-$200) and require a power source. However, the power source could easily be from rechargable batteries.

So my question to you is:
Mechanical or Electronic?

So you have a little more info, my retail price goals are:
Mechanical $100-$150
Electronic $250-$400

[/ QUOTE ]

I vote electronic!
G$

[Guthrie]

Electric, and it's not even close.

[Pokertini]

Electronic, definitely. I'm ready to pay. Do you have a loose time frame at all? IE - This year?

[kodonnell]

Sounds like it's electronic...damn, time to learn electronics. It's gonna be so cool though.

Time wise, if I do not have something ready for production by the end of the year (even November) I would be very dissapointed...however, there have been setbacks in the past, but right now, I'm optomistic. This whole inventing thing can be a trial of patience...you think poker is brutal?