Man, some of the entries in that contest are… out there.
Dice Tower: Printables
What?: Printables
Clearly Epcot: Printables
Also for watering pets: Printables
I shouldn’t poke fun. People are making and sharing. But there are some pretty funny ones in there.
i like the “DICE” tower, that is just awesome!
I genuinely love these competitions for that - in some models you can feel the excitement of what is obviously a 12 year old kid having a play with Tinkercad and having a go for the first time.
Then you look in the mirror…
How about a cheater’s dice tower? Maybe use little registration features so the die starts in exactly the same place every time, and a trap door or something so it gets released the same way. Try to make it as deterministic as possible. That would be a cool challenge.
ohh I like that - except that you’d have to have a separate switch for everyone else. I’m sure you can do it though.
Did I just hear you say “hold my beer”?
Maybe there is a second die, which you set to 6. Then the top die releases it smoothly. After the first roll, it acts like a regular tower? It would help you go first in aggravation and anytime after the other person refills their beverage.
BTW. I printed your tower. It makes a satisfying sound. I didn’t realize the dice will just jettison out the bottom. That is fun too. I like that there are two tracks.
Starting the print…
update:
I got this copper/gold/silver pla with a filament dryer. I like it. It also makes funky cable chain:
I guess you “feed” the bird your dice and it “lays the egg” (drops the dice out the … uh, )
Would be very cool if it screamed as it did to reflect how much laying a cubic egg would hurt!
put a beam break optical sensor in there with a pico or nano and a speaker with an 8-bit screech noise profile…
OK, this is entered currently but only because it’s been sitting in draft mode for almost a year while I got around to doing all the mad explanation stuff - it was a real choke point for me on a number of fronts so now it’s done, coincidentally just in time for a vaguely relevant competition!
Being a visual sort of chap, I’ve had the devil of a job explaining simply how to make a “parametric adjustment” to a model - I’ve complicated it for beginners by forcing them to sign up to Onshape.
Would one or two of you would be kind enough to download the “Source File” and follow the instructions and give me an honest critique? I hope to use this now as the template for all things to come.
Hopefully no previous Onshape experience is required, but you will have to sign up for a free account!
