Development updates, technical insights, and thoughts behind the GlideSorter — an automated device for organizing trading card collections.
This blog serves as a developer’s journal, chronicling the journey from early prototypes to design decisions and real-world implementation.
Whether you're into Magic, Pokémon, or Flesh and Blood — here’s how it’s all coming together, one step at a time.
Oct 23, 2025
Card Recognition Begins
The story of how the first recognition module took shape, from early experiments to the first promising results...
Sep 11, 2025
Our Own MTG Database
The MTG data import is complete: cards, properties, images — ready to use...
Jul 1, 2025
Bridging UI and Hardware
An interface is useless if it controls nothing — time to change that...
Jun 3, 2025
Main App Interface And Sorting Presets
We all want an interface that’s powerful, clean, and intuitive — but…
May 19, 2025
Hardware Sorting Test
Bringing the mechanics together — a simulated card sorting run (no recognition just yet). Let’s put some load on the machine and see what happens…
May 3, 2025
Let the Calibration Begin
We’ve got a device — but before it can start sorting cards, we need to make sure every component is accessible and doing exactly what it’s supposed to…
Apr 22, 2025
This Is Where We Are Now
A year has passed since the funny hobby prototype — what a year, what’s done, and what’s still to come…
Apr 12, 2025
How It All Began
It all started in January 2024, when a friend mentioned how frustrating it is to sort large stacks of TCG cards…