RSSElectronic, battery-less dice
Dhananjaygadre writes -
A Microcontroller, AVR Tiny13 based electronic dice, that does not use any battery or any normal power source. Instead it derives its power from a voltage generator based on the Faraday principle using a coil wound over a tube and a magnet inside the tube. To use the dice, just shake the circuit a few times and it produces a random number between 1 and 6 and displays it on the LEDs.
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Sep 25, 2007 02:00 AM
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| Posted by: saehn on September 25, 2007 at 7:05 AM |
ZOMG it's a bomb!!!
Sorry, just can't get over that.
| Posted by: paulsw on September 25, 2007 at 6:21 PM |
That's a very funny and very creative project. I love how it rattles too, duplicating some of the tactile experience of shaking real dice.
| Posted by: acidrain69 on September 25, 2007 at 8:04 PM |
Excellent! And it mimics the action of shaking dice too. For the sequel, may I suggest a 2-dice model? Would a 7-segment LED work (the ones shaped like an 8 that can display 0-9)? You might be able to get 2 of those side by side, turned 90 degrees in the end of a slightly longer tube, with the micro on the other side (maybe sandwich some breadboard)
| Posted by: dvgadre on September 25, 2007 at 9:18 PM |
Thanks everyone.
dragonphyre: I am from New Delhi, but if you go to SETC Fablab in Boston, the folks there can help you to build this. Ed Baafi is putting this and other related projects in kit form: http://mod-kit.com/make
Personman:
I am trying to find a publisher to print this project as an article. Perhaps Make?
acidrain69:
The Faraday generator can easily handle current for two 7-segment displays. Perhaps I will build and post that too in the near future.
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