honnet / DrDice

A noisy knitted dice made in Noise bridge, with just a few Dr Who references.

Dr Dice!

A noisy knitted dice made in Noise bridge, with just a few Dr Who references.

What ?

This project is the result of a stupid collaboration, during a stupid hackathon in a stupid hackerspace:

It's about a knitted dice with some stupid electronics inside, if you throw it, a sound is played when it stops on a face. Those faces have different pictures related to the famous Dr. Who, and their associated sounds:

• Dalek
• TARDIS
• Sonic Screwdriver
• Random
• Cyberman
• Dr Who

How?

Technically, here is what we used:

• Accelerometer LSM303DLM (+unused gyro & compass) from http://pololu.com/product/1265
• Mini Audio FX Board from http://adafru.it/23411
• Amplification circuit from http://adafru.it/2130
• Speaker from http://adafru.it/1890
• Charging circuit from http://adafru.it/1905
• later: LEDs ?

Drivers

• Accelerometer: we used a modified version of the LSM303 driver from pololu, it's in this repo.
• Sound Board: we used the Adafruit driver from github, but it's embedded in this repo to be sure that it works even if they modify it.

Improvment ideas

During THSF#8, https://www.thsf.net/, we will try to adapt this project on other components in order to miniaturize the electronics. Maybe we'll use the Teensy Audio Shield instead of the Mini Audio FX Board ;)