Hackaday reader [Daid] posted in our forums showing off a set of electronic dice he recently constructed. Back in January,*we featured a similar set of electronic dice built with*an*Arduino that was way overpowered as far as [Daid] was concerned. Not satisfied with simply saying it could be done better, he put his money where his mouth is – something we would love to see more of.
He used an ATTiny2313 to provide the device’s logic, outputting the dice values on a set of four 7 segment displays. The whole setup is controlled by a single push button that serves triple duty rolling the dice, configuring how many sides the dice have, as well as selecting how many dice are being thrown.
He admits that the wiring job is a bit of a mess, but he was going for function over form, and it works just fine. He also says that he would have finished it far sooner if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids some broken 7 segment displays.
We think he did quite a nice job, though we’re all ears if you think you can do it better.
Filed under: Microcontrollers, misc hacks
