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In this project, we had the goal of creating an automatic card dealer mechanism that would flick one card to 4 different players at a given distance. Throughout the project process, many changes and updates were made. To begin, we realized that trying to have our mechanism dispense at 4 different spots to a given distance was a bit too big of a task for the time allotted. Instead, we needed to simplify and focus on ensuring that we created a mechanism that could flick a card in a similar since sense to that of a human arm. Next, we redesigned our proposed mechanism from a four-bar mechanism to a six-bar mechanism. This insured ensured that we got the needed motion and velocity required to allow our mechanism to flick the card out. In the end, we succeeded in creating a mechanism that reflected and performed the motion of an arm flicking a card.
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