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Online dice collections

Online dice collections

Shown above is a small sample of Justin Michell’s meticulously-documented dice collection over at Kevin Cook’s DiceCollector.com. Justin’s is one of six collections, besides Kevin’s own, hosted at the site, which makes for fascinating browsing. Most folks’ experience of dice is limited to the simple Platonic-solid dice, but of the first 20 integers, only 1-, 17- and 19-sided dice are not represented in Justin’s collection.

Disclosure: I got wind of Justin’s collection when he contacted me about putting my old design for an alphabet die up on Shapeways, which I did. His print in stainless steel is shown uppermost. I make two bucks for each one they print.

Hacked iRobot Create uses Xbox Kinect

Hacked iRobot Create uses Xbox Kinect

The Kinect hackapalooza continues. Here, PhD student Philipp Robbel, of MIT’s Personal Robotics Group, combined an Xbox Kinect with an iRobot Create to come up with KinectBot. It can can generate “detailed 3D maps of its surroundings and wirelessly send them to a host computer. KinectBot can also detect nearby humans and track their movements […]

Maker Hobbies: LARPing

Maker Hobbies: LARPing

From Flickr user rsummer’s Maelstrom – Cavalcade photoset In response to our Maker Hobbies theme, we got an email from Martin Raynsford. He writes: My hobby is Live action role play (LARPing). It’s a bit like medieval re-enactment where the outcome of the battle isn’t already decided, and a bit like a real-life Lord of […]

Kinect art program

Mehmet “Memo” Akten‘s experiment shows the possibilities of the newly hacked gadget. The XBox Kinect is connected to my Macbook Pro, and I wrote a little demo to analyse the depth map for gestural 3D interaction. One hand to draw in 3D, two hands to rotate the view. Very rough, early prototype. [Kinect hacks, via […]

Dice projects

Dice projects

Dearest readers, gaming enthusiasts, and dice aficionados, I present to you a roundup of our favorite dice projects here on Make: Online! Photo above by PT from the NYC Toy Fair 2008. Polycube Puzzles from Dice Letterpress prints using dice as “type” LED Dice kit in the Maker Shed How-To: D12 and D20 Dice Purses […]