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Haha. Literally just finished a game with my family and was thinking "you know I should laser cut and engrave/mill some metal pieces because these move too much
by contingencies 4y ago
Haha. Literally just finished a game with my family and was thinking "you know I should laser cut and engrave/mill some metal pieces because these move too much".
For this project I would've had each board host an analog switch (neighbour selection) and use SPI and/or I2C rather than onewire. This would allow cheap flash memory (unique ID per tile + local storage/configuration) with SPI/I2C passthru. That way the host could determine topology easily and deduplicate redundant routes. A dumb read-only MCU could populate the local RGB from flash if required. With the spare cycles thus obtained you could even implement animation.
So... who's got wood for my sheep? https://youtu.be/VBmRCclzCVU?t=33 https://youtu.be/VBmRCclzCVU?t=33
- LeifCarrotson 4y agoI have been thinking about 3D printing some hex pieces out of PLA, embedding some small magnets in the periphery, and painting them... Unfortunately my modeling skills are much stronger with geometric primitives like cuboids, cylinders, and spheroids than with mountains, forests, pastures, clay quarries, and wheat fields!
- Taywee 4y agoI've seen some quite decent low poly Catan models. You can do quite a lot with primitives.
- derac 4y agoThere are a lot of cc-0 low poly models that would work well for this on itch io and other sites.
- Tade0 4y agoI've found that even 6x2.5mm N38 magnets are more than strong enough to stick pieces thick of cardboard to a whiteboard. Larger ones could probably hold something even if there's a good few millimetres of wood between the magnet and the metal board. Dangerously powerful things. I use them to keep tiny screws in place when I disassemble something. Properly placed they can even stop laptop fans completely.
- bombcar 4y agoI’ve seen people take a piece of wood and cut hexagonal spaces in it - with holes below to pop pieces back out. Things like this exist too: https://gamesenhanced.com/2014/10/04/custom-wooden-catan-game-board/?amp https://gamesenhanced.com/2014/10/04/custom-wooden-catan-gam...
- Avamander 4y agoThey could just have tiny magnets in them to reduce the amount of misalignment. Though having a fancy laser-cut and etched set does sound nice.