Long road trips are inevitable. Most adults can keep themselves busy with portable devices or smartphones, but what about the kids? If you’re looking to unplug on a long car or train ride, you may decide to bring out a board game, but this presents a problem: how are you going to roll dice in a moving vehicle?
Hammes Hacks ran into this problem when their nieces and nephews kept losing their dice beneath the driver’s seat. And so, the Tiny Dice Kit was born. This SMD soldering kit combines an ATTINY 13 using charlieplexing, and 14 LEDs to create the faces of two dice.
While it is not Arduino compatible, the code comes preloaded onto the microcontroller. You can upload code as needed using a Bus Pirate, an AVRisp mk II or something similar. It may not be a problem you have all the time, but I think we can all agree it’s about time dice went digital.
