Travel Checkers Set

A small checkerboard for playing 8x8 games like English “draughts” (aka checkers) or the Russian “shashki”. Includes 12 draughtsmen of each color and integrated storage for them. Designed for convenience of transport and of assembly. At 210 x 210 mm, it's just small enough to fit on the print bed of a Prusa i3. The checkered top is designed to print as one multi-colored piece, accomplished by a manual filament change just before each of the two final layers.

Suggested print setup 

Nozzle: 0.4 mm

Rafts: No

Supports: No

Resolution: 0.25 mm

Infill: 20% Gyroid

Filament: PLA - gold, brown, charcoal, black, white

Perimeters: 3

Solid Bottom Layers: 4

Solid Top Layers: 5

Skirt Loops: 0

Fill Patterns

For bottom of bottom.stl: Octagram Spiral

For top of draughtsman-*.stl: Hilbert Curve

For all other surfaces: Rectilinear

Print Quantities

• 1 x top.stl (recommended to start with gold, then switch to brown for the second-to-last layer and charcoal for the last layer)
• 1 x middle.stl (gold recommended)
• 2 x pin.stl (same color as middle.stl)
• 1 x bottom.stl (charcoal recommended)
• 24 x draughtsman-manside.stl (12 black and 12 white recommended)
• 24 x draughtsman-kingside.stl (12 of each color, same as draughtsman-manside.stl, but switch to gold or any other regal color for the two final layers)

Assembly

Using glue and the two printed pins, mount the checkered top on the middle. Slide the bottom onto the middle using the integrated rails.