Digital dice roller
Adding the "toppers"
Of course, there was always going to be more to this project than just some boring old electronics. The whole point of creating an enclosure with a 35mm diameter was so that it could act as a “plinth” for a beautifully painted miniature on a 32mm base.
Not only is this an electronic dice roller, but can be a “mascot stand” for players in their D&D campaigns or simply a little something to place on the tabletop to intimidate their opponents (while wow-ing them with techno-cool at the same time).
In fact, the entire project was designed, from the very start, as a collaboration with OTT member Horatio Noseblower to create something cool for a series of miniatures he’d designed on the Hero Forge website.
A few months earlier, I’d printed off a load of miniatures and posted them to the USA for him to paint – the idea being that while he was painting the minis, I would make the bases for them to stand on, completing a cool inter-continental, global members collab. as gift items for the OnTableTop crew.
Here’s “Captain Alpha Strike” in his 3d rendered form.
The months passed by and things went a little quiet on the US front. So while I was waiting for the custom PCBs to be delivered (thanks to a global pandemic, and the disaster-that-nobody-wants-to-talk-about-any-more that is Brexit, things seem to take an awful lot longer to arrive in the UK from anywhere “overseas”) I took to printing out duplicates of Horatio’s miniature designs and cracked out the paints…
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