Something most of my hobbies have in common? Opportunities to spend money on plastic! Whether it’s Lego, or buying dice and figures to play DND, or 3D printing, I bring a lot of macroplastics into my home. So I figured, why not combine them all? Now it’s probably not obvious how based on that thumbnail but follow along and I’ll explain.
I’ve wanted to get better with 3d modelling for awhile now, and a great starter project that people recommend is modelling a set of dice! Unfortunately, I found the very basic dice boring and so I decided to make it 10 times more complicated by making them compatible with the leading brand of interlocking plastic bricks (that’s the official legal term). Luckily, as a sophisticated locking brick system (that is genuinely what they call themselves), there are really exact measurements available online and after a bit of banging my head against a wall, I had properly sized divots that should accept pieces! After I had them all printed out, the only question was finding those pieces.
This was the fun part, as I got to relive childhood memories of digging through a bucket of Lego on the floor of my bedroom. Nostalgic for sure, but I don’t think my spine would agree. Nonetheless, I had the pieces I needed to slap together a test and with a little bit of elbow grease and sore thumbs, it was ready!
And there we are! The numbers are just marker for now, and please don’t mind my printing, but they’ll work well enough for my real-world test during DND this Saturday!
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