Quantum Dice

High brightness LEDs

Orders are now placed for the PCBs via Newbury Electronics 1 day service…

Rapid prototyping provides a new home for a hermit crab

3D printing (Rapid Prototyping) provides a dice housing that will roll

The components for the dice are arriving

The Smart Sand project from MIT is also exploring dice-like concepts

The University of Cambridge uses LEGO to investigate the growth of synthetic bone.

Source: not-maida

The concept for the dice casing. The wood is cut via a CO2 laser, and delivered mail order from the people at Ponoko. This has the advantage that if anyone wanted to reproduce the casing independently, the designs could be repeat-ordered.

A sketch of the dice. The design calls for six circuit boards, one USB dongle, one accelerometer, one battery pack and 42 LEDs.