The Dice Kit

Fun & Games

This is a fantastic introductory electronics kit that comes with your choice of large red or green LEDs and everything else needed (aside from a soldering iron, solder, and flush cutters) to make one electronic 6-sided die. (The manufacturer says: โ€œThe name Dice Kit sounds a great deal better than โ€˜Die Kitโ€™, so we bent English grammar rules just a little in the name of making a marketable product.โ€ Good move!)

The finished project is fun to use: you lift it a half-inch above the table and drop it to โ€œrollโ€ the die. A piezoelectric buzzer senses the impact and triggers theย circuit to generate a random number and illuminate the LEDs. Everyone I show it to smiles at the way it works.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Make: magazine, and the founder of the popular Boing Boing blog.

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