Beta Project - Dice Tower v3!

That tower is looking pretty nifty! I’ve got a few tower designs myself, but no laser until the spring, or GF. Here in Minnesota it dipped back below subzero yesterday, but we didn’t get any snow like you did. Hang in there!

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Thanks!

Oh, the snow is all gone now (at least for me). Holding in the high 30s/ low 40s mostly.

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Wow! That is super fun! Love the castle design!

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Seriously love the tower! Amazing Project :grinning:

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That tower is awesome. We play games that occasionally require dice. I could see using something like this to roll for all sorts of games.

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So, not being a very mathy person, but very interested in the hinge idea for a dice tower, how does one go about figuring out the length that the hinge needs to be in order to reach the front of the tower? I’m assuming there’s a basic math equation that I no longer remember…

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Good question. If someone has not already addressed it before I can later tonight (and they probably will) I’ll show you the answer.

2πr for a complete circle. πr for a semi-circle. (And I usually find that a tiny bit extra is nice for keeping the results from stretching too much. Purely subjective.) :slightly_smiling_face:

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Precisely. The little extra helps account for the kerf of the beam and the voids it leaves in the wood. If you do the exact correct length that you calculate per the radius of the bend you want, then your finished arc will end up a bit too short.

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@Jules answer is probably close enough. My answer will deal with K factor and such…

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What’s a K factor? (I just kind of rough it out - if there’s a better way, i’d like to learn.) :grinning:

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Kerf I would assume.

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I need to be home to give this, actually a little complicated. Look later tonight. Like I said probably fine as you figure it but if we get into other things that are more critical…

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No rush! :slightly_smiling_face:

No actually gets into material science some.

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As promised:

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is this available to download? I’d love to make one for my son…

Epic indeed. Love it.

Just as a first, it’s generally asked that no one ask for the plans to things shown.

However, to that end, here are a number of towers for the rolling of a die that are readily available:

That third one has the requirement that you post a pic of the copy you print. And you have to customized it by printing a design on it somewhere. :wink:

Magnifying glass and a quick “dice tower” lead to a plethora of ideas.

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Thanks Wes. Excuse the faux pas on my etiquette… Don’t come here as frequently as I probably ought to, and am very new to “the forge”. I had seen the other threads - probably just missed the messages in them that contained the download files! thanks again.

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