Technic dice

[DrJimbo]

So, I was fooling around with 5x7 frames and made a cube.

The natural progression was to fill in the empty spaces with the obvious pattern

Goal was to maximise contrast and minimise any visible additional colours.

Black and white was pretty successful

  

Insides are clean, should be a reasonably 'true' die. There would be some small weight differences between faces, I'm sure.

There are a few blue pins that are the only element that is not black or white, and none are on the surface.

 

The grey / orange has black pins...

  

and uses orange 1x2 liftarms. I started adding bits to brace against wobble / rotation. The inside is a hot mess, I'm sure it could be improved upon.

 

[whitepen]

Cool concept!

[aeh5040]

Nice, although not the first time it's been done: http://www.technicbricks.com/2009/07/let-dice-roll.html?m=1

It is an interesting challenge to fill all the connecting pin holes with pins - see below - I don't know if this can be done in combination with the die effect. 

http://brickshelf.com/gallery/aeh/Impossible/impossible.jpg

Edited May 28, 2021 by aeh5040

[DrJimbo]

Playing around with some more parts.

Added a smaller model:

a bit hampered by the inability to use the centre part of each face.

Next challenge is to make a 5x5 version with a true dice pattern.