Need help building roulette display board (2 Viewers)

[havvick]

Hey everyone! I host a casino night for a few friends at my place and want to really step up the experience with a roullete display board.

I've got a laptop, ipad, 24inch monitor, stand for ipad,laptop and monitor.

I've got a single 0 roullete wheel.

I'm really hoping to have the ipad on the stand with all numbers available. As the number comes up the dealer can click the number to display it on the board with the last 20 numbers, would love to have other metrics such as hot numbers or % of red/black in the last 20.

I've searched everywhere and tried learning and downloading software to try and create my own code (I have no clue what I'm doing but happy to learn if you can assist)

A member names justdave made his own set up in one of the threads that got me here. But the website suggested I make a thread hopefully he finds it

 

[allforcharity]

Sounds ambitious!

 

[havvick]

Sounds ambitious!

Very much so haha. Currently trying to find someone who can code after spending 8 hours trying to even under stand the differences between Java, bootleg, HTML etc and what category would this fall into and then the coding crash course haha.

I did basic programming where we created a mini dice game with a random number generator and text boxes on Adobe illustrator I believe? But this is going back a good 14/15years now.

I think it could make what I'm thinking but very basic. With hidden text boxes with a source of images and rules,and then imputing formulas for it to calculate red/black % off last 20 numbers eg text box 1-20/ Total value of numbers that are within group 1 and then group 2 etc

But then it's getting way too complicated to throw in ios to run off an ipad, and I've already invested more than I'd like to admit on my casino nights. To buy a software and then spend alot more time researching to build something medicore would be very disappointing haha

 

[ekricket]

@dennis63

 

[BEANO52]

Raspberry pi / Arduino & fiverr

 

[dennis63]

I made a very simple winning number display using a PC and a monitor in "landscape mode."

Most of what you see is screen background. The number display is actually a Microsoft Excel chart set to black. (Three colums -- red, green for "0" and black).

Real winning number displays are a gigantic investment if you don't own a casino. If you have the cash to spring for a real one, it will read the winning number and display it automatically, but it will cost you.

Casino Supplies and Services in Vegas has real winning number displays, complete with camera ball optical readers starting at around $7,600.

I recommend you reach out to Jerry at Jetacer Interactive. He programs games for fun, and built the slot machine and blackjack programs for the Key West site. He's awesome to work with and can create a program that will have whatever you want built in. His contacts:

Email jerryd@jetacer.com
Site: www.jetacer.com

 

[TheLemursReturn]

When is the party? I can build this as a web page so it will automatically work on any/all devices. Should just take me a day or so for a first draft and maybe another day to get feedback and revise. If you have a few weeks to work with, I can make that happen. No charge.

 

[dpeks13]

my coding brain wants in on this, but I don't have the time to dedicate. I second @TheLemursReturn that it makes sense as a webpage so it's easy to access from both devices

 

[chipchipchip]

If you’re totally new to coding this doesn’t seem super hard using excel macros/VBA (do they still use VBA in excel?) and some creative formatting. If it had to be on an iPad maybe Google sheets could accomplish the same?

I’m not a programmer but I’ve done similar with excel like 15-20 years ago before.

 

[allforcharity]

So would you manually enter the results somewhere or would you have a camera so the computer can recognize the results directly off the wheel?

 

[Sparkynutz]

I made a very simple winning number display using a PC and a monitor in "landscape mode."

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Most of what you see is screen background. The number display is actually a Microsoft Excel chart set to black. (Three colums -- red, green for "0" and black).

Real winning number displays are a gigantic investment if you don't own a casino. If you have the cash to spring for a real one, it will read the winning number and display it automatically, but it will cost you.

Casino Supplies and Services in Vegas has real winning number displays, complete with camera ball optical readers starting at around $7,600.

I recommend you reach out to Jerry at Jetacer Interactive. He programs games for fun, and built the slot machine and blackjack programs for the Key West site. He's awesome to work with and can create a program that will have whatever you want built in. His contacts:

Email jerryd@jetacer.com
Site: www.jetacer.com

I was thinking something like that would not be that hard to make into a regular spreadsheet and have it do the math part.
Right now we just use a dry erase board with a red a black and a green marker so you can see what hit earlier.

 

[dennis63]

So would you manually enter the results somewhere or would you have a camera so the computer can recognize the results directly off the wheel?

To get the computer to read and display the number, you'd need an optical reader (about $1,000) and the software ($ ?)

I just entered the number when it came out. In the future, I'd make sure to have two people working the table -- a croupier to spin the wheel and pay the winners, and a sorter who could enter the number on the screen and sort the losing chips back into stacks.

 

[iballman]

I built something in Excel. All you do is enter the number on a 10-key USB thing push ENTER and it reads aloud the number, color, and parity then graphs it. I simply connect to a monitor or TV and display it near the table. It does the job.

Just don't enter a weird number...that jacks it all up.

 

[cpiaaq]

I built something in Excel. All you do is enter the number on a 10-key USB thing push ENTER and it reads aloud the number, color, and parity then graphs it. I simply connect to a monitor or TV and display it near the table. It does the job.

Just don't enter a weird number...that jacks it all up.

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That looks amazing! I’m interested if you’re sharing.

 

[allforcharity]

Potentially, me too. But I'm not a coder.

 

[kaida]

I built something in Excel. All you do is enter the number on a 10-key USB thing push ENTER and it reads aloud the number, color, and parity then graphs it. I simply connect to a monitor or TV and display it near the table. It does the job.

Just don't enter a weird number...that jacks it all up.

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This looks really nice! I would love a copy, if you're open to it.