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Electronic Dice


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By: kurt

Push a button to roll the dice. When you let go of the button, the result shows up on the red LEDs just like on real dice. This is a simple beginner's open source hardware project that you can show off to your friends the next time you play a board game and can't find the dice for it!

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Bill of Materials

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. Insert wires

Insert red jumper wires as shown.

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. Insert wires

Insert orange jumper wires as shown.

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. Insert wire

Insert long red jumper wire as shown.

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. Insert 150pF capacitor

Insert 150pF capacitor as shown. Use a capacitor with a smaller capacitance to increase the frequency of the 555 timer and make the die "roll" through more digits while the button is held down.

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. Insert resistors

Insert 1M (brown,black,green,gold) and 1k (brown,black,red,gold) resistors as shown. Decrease the resistance of the 1M resistor to increase the frequency of the 555 timer.

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Revisions



6 - updated description
5 - updated step numbers.
4 - changed LED part
3 - added a description for the project image
2 - added file descriptions
1 - Initial project release




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