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Digital dice roller

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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.

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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.

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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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