Concepts

Current

Our current concept solved the construction problems we had before. It simplified the process by making the TileShuffler with 2 boxes instead of one. One the back end we are going to include two levers that are going to be used manually to tilt the boxes on a angle. The angle will provide sliding surface for the chosen tiles. On the top box tiles will be chosen randomly, and one by one the tiles are going to slide out of the box to the owner. We are going to use 4 servos that work as gates, randomly chosen gate will open and tile will slide out. Motors, Arduino, and other technical stuff will be in the box underneath.

Sketch for tiles and servos

Current design with slight modifications

Electronic Circuit design for servos

blueprints for cutting the boxes

Top View of current prototype

Side View of current prototype

Abandoned

Our Abandoned concepts, showed in a picture. We decided to not go with this prototype since we realized it comes with series of issues. The issues were more construction ones rather than functionality. We had other concepts to but no prototypes were made of those, we will include pictures of the ideas as well.

In this picture you can see the original idea, which included motorized rails for the tiles to move. The idea was decent but we realised we don't really need to move the tiles up and down, so we removed the rails and just made it a slide.