(03-12-2021, 04:04 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Pixels - Programmable LED-lit, Bluetooth-enabled, wirelessly-charged dice.
Three days into the campaign, and they already have pledges in excess of $2 million -- for an initial goal of $200,000.
Interestingly, they've made the actual electronics and physical design open-source. The software and firmware is on GitHub, and the hardware designs are up on hackaday.io, and there are links to it all on the campaign page.
My husband (who is the resident Dice Goblin in our house right now) looked at that one... up to the point he saw the cost ($40 for one die, not counting shipping), and admitted it was really way too rich for his blood. Especially when I pointed out that, eventually, the things won't hold a charge anymore and then you're down to a really expensive set of resin dice, as I doubt you'll be able to change the cell inside it. Plus, he'd be (gently) mocked by the DM and other player in our game for using them.
That said, they do look really cool. And props for it being Open Source... what you're paying for here is the manufacturing, which is non-trivial.
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