[Noisebridge-discuss] building fortune machine contraption: how to print or dispense a single business-card sized fortune?

[Michael Shiloh]

Thanks!


> CTP built a robot to dispense single business cards using a gripper
> wheel, and I think he had trouble making it reliable. Maybe ask him
> about it?

WIll do. Is he not on NB?

> If I were doing this, I would use the vending machine spiral trick.
> You can make the spirals really tight to hold a decent number of
> cards. Here are some surplus motors that have a rotation sensor so you
> can rig them to turn exactly once:

So the spiral holds the cards, one card per revolution? Or more, and 
then sense when you've gone around whatever distance it takes to 
dispense one card?