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A minimalist game piece. One printed part. Suitable to FFF vase mode, resin and powder based manufacturing.
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Model information
- Source
- Printables
- Category
- Board Games
- License
- Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial — NoDerivatives
What it is
A small, vase mode printable game piece. All internal parts are efficiently held by the printed shell.
What is needed
- 1x 3V battery, CR1620 or CR1632
- 1x 5mm LED in a color of your choice
- 0-1x matching resistor (optional)
- 1x printed part
With a normal/random LED, a CR1620 should last several hours.
How to print
For all variants light colors or somewhat translucent material is recommended.
FFF variants
- There are multiple variants awaiting you, the naming convention is: GamePiece_BatteryType_LEDsize_ExtrusionWidth.stl
- Since the inside of the geometry is holding the internal parts in place, your extrusion width needs to match that one of the file. Else the internal fit is not ensured and the parts may fall out.
- Recommended for printing in vase mode is a 0.2 mm layer height. Printing with a not matching extrusion width or scaling the model likely causes the inner parts to not fit.
- No bottom layer, underside needs to remain open.
Resin & powder variants
- naming convention is: GamePiece_BatteryType_LEDsize_ShellThickness.stl
How to assemble
The legs of the LED (and optional resistor) shall be long enough to form a springy spiral, which later on experiences compression between the wall of the printed part and the inserted battery.
Place the LED (or soldered assembly) into the printed part, add a battery 90° rotated to the bent leads when ready to play.
When finished playing, you might want to pull the battery out without short circuiting it. I use tweezers or needle nose pliers with their tips beeing isolated by tape or shrinking tube.
Troubleshooting
The LED does not turn on:
- check polarity
- check battery voltage
- dead LED / infrared LED
If the parts dont fit:
- Your extrusion is calibrated well?
- You printed the right part with your setup & settings?
- I may have messed up, I am sorry. Please report back with a part & problem description and the clearance your system usually needs/achieves.
What next
There may be improvements and modifications based on feedback given here.
Given there is demand, there might be more variants to come; even chess pieces.
Now you may have the brightest game piece(s) in town, play fair ;-)