SpaceDice Variation 1 - Prototype

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You can find out more about the variations here: http://joes3dworkbench.blogspot.com/ According to some anecdotal evidence, Mars isn't exactly the kind of place where you'd want to raise kids. The weather is pretty harsh, but I say maybe the real problem is the inability to play board games on those cold-as-ice nights. And how are you going to play board games when dice are flying all over the place? They never land, so they can't be read. What you need... is SPACE DICE! Just 3D print it in your NASA-approved print-in-space 3D printer. The design needs some minimal supports, which are built into the STL to support the underside lips, no matter what the slicer handles because the rest is just bridging, and that's amazing when you're 3D printing in microgravity. For a fair dice, use the same number of top and bottom layers and try to make the walls as thick, and use minimal infill. Once printed, get eight little neodymium magnet balls that you're supposed to keep away from children. You can usually "borrow" some from the desk of that one guy in the office who's got all the toys on his desk. There's always one of those guys, even in space. Snap the magnets into the corners, then lightly toss the dice at any metallic surface (and in space, what isn't metallic?) and watch them stick on a random side. Space dice do introduce a small problem when you need to roll two of them. As soon as they're in your hand, they tend to snap together, locking their positions relative to each other in place. This might not be a big problem, but depending on the polarity of the magnets when you snapped them in, they may resist certain alignments, so it's best to avoid the problem altogether and roll them two-handed. Unless you're playing Yatzee, in which case, you've used 40 of those little magnets, and chances are the guy you're "borrowing" them from may start to notice his supply dwindling. Hard-core board game people may ask if these dice are fairly distributed and even, to which I say, "You're rolling dice in space! Does nothing impress you?!" If you like my work, I hope you'll consider supporting me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/3DPrintingArt Subscribe to me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/marcelgibbons