IsntThatADaisy
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Hello everyone,
First post. I tend to make big splashes but I'll try to keep this short. If you had to put a title on me I prefer 'Full Stack Developer' but truth is I fit in many seats. For the last 6 years I was paid to solve problems for companies that hired the marketing agency I worked at, but now I do my own thing and have much more time to devote to my projects. You can only tell me about a problem you're having for so long before I solve it if I can. This leads me to my current predicament and project, Teddy, a smart poker table. I had done a lot of Alex and voice work at the tail end of my last job and after some interaction with non/semi poker players I noticed a problem (or at least I perceive one) with the live poker streaming world. Let me clarify...
I am an avid Live At The Bike watcher (not so much since Limon left) and when I would show people hands (like the video above) and I will always get "Wait, so which guy has Ad?" "Is that Limon or is that Harry we're looking at? Oh, ok" This lack of instant recognition got me to thinking, then me grabbing a raspberry pi/hardware I had laying around, and then writing some python to achieve this...
I have a slidedeck that talks all about it but I think the video will give you the gist of the active player abilities. There's no audio in the video, but the table is named 'Teddy' and listens to 'Teddy...' rather than Alexa and eventually will pick up on dealer actions and move the active state automatically. This table has a full RFID setup but there's no need to document that (no the four color Copags you see in the video are not RFID...yet).
Trouble is, I'm not sure why I built this, I don't know who it's for. The one you see i was commissioned to build by my local card room and I got full creative freedom. I have become discouraged lately though as the only people who think it's cool are non poker players. It seems most poker players could care less about what table they play on as long as it meets a certain level of comfort. I tried to design it with dealer comfort in mind so the good mood will trickle down and out to the players, but even the dealers I talk to go 'Meh'. I also built a simple board system so they can move away from a white board but that has fallen on it's face (view the board here. Yes I know the high hand is incorrectly labeled. Lost interest in this too). I'm also having trouble with the fact that it's 2019 yet I seem to be the first person to do something like this? Please tell me I'm wrong about that.
What do you guys think? Keep in mind this is nowhere near complete. I apologize if this post is in the wrong section or if I'm breaking any rules, I have a tendency to do that with first posts.
First post. I tend to make big splashes but I'll try to keep this short. If you had to put a title on me I prefer 'Full Stack Developer' but truth is I fit in many seats. For the last 6 years I was paid to solve problems for companies that hired the marketing agency I worked at, but now I do my own thing and have much more time to devote to my projects. You can only tell me about a problem you're having for so long before I solve it if I can. This leads me to my current predicament and project, Teddy, a smart poker table. I had done a lot of Alex and voice work at the tail end of my last job and after some interaction with non/semi poker players I noticed a problem (or at least I perceive one) with the live poker streaming world. Let me clarify...
I am an avid Live At The Bike watcher (not so much since Limon left) and when I would show people hands (like the video above) and I will always get "Wait, so which guy has Ad?" "Is that Limon or is that Harry we're looking at? Oh, ok" This lack of instant recognition got me to thinking, then me grabbing a raspberry pi/hardware I had laying around, and then writing some python to achieve this...
I have a slidedeck that talks all about it but I think the video will give you the gist of the active player abilities. There's no audio in the video, but the table is named 'Teddy' and listens to 'Teddy...' rather than Alexa and eventually will pick up on dealer actions and move the active state automatically. This table has a full RFID setup but there's no need to document that (no the four color Copags you see in the video are not RFID...yet).
Trouble is, I'm not sure why I built this, I don't know who it's for. The one you see i was commissioned to build by my local card room and I got full creative freedom. I have become discouraged lately though as the only people who think it's cool are non poker players. It seems most poker players could care less about what table they play on as long as it meets a certain level of comfort. I tried to design it with dealer comfort in mind so the good mood will trickle down and out to the players, but even the dealers I talk to go 'Meh'. I also built a simple board system so they can move away from a white board but that has fallen on it's face (view the board here. Yes I know the high hand is incorrectly labeled. Lost interest in this too). I'm also having trouble with the fact that it's 2019 yet I seem to be the first person to do something like this? Please tell me I'm wrong about that.
What do you guys think? Keep in mind this is nowhere near complete. I apologize if this post is in the wrong section or if I'm breaking any rules, I have a tendency to do that with first posts.
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