Dice Spinner

Hi John! Sorry to hear about the failed prints. We just added a downloadable plate in the links at the top of this page that should work well with the standard cup for this design and print fine. You may need to adjust the hole size depending on your printer tolerance though. We also have a rumble plate dice roller design available to build!

Update #1: after posting, I found this remix, also on Thingiverse.com. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3872754/files I printed this newer spinning platter; at least it finished printing. I haven't had time to evaluate it, and as the note on the page says, it is for a different size of cup (so many cups!). But the idea of the concentric circles supporting the upper layers of the spinner plate is a good one.

The platter does not print, at least for me. I tried three times. I used Prusa Mini+, with PLA. I took a closer look in PrusaSlicer. The problem as I see it is that the part goes from a very small diameter to the full diameter too quickly, with no intermediate increase in size. Basically, the overhang is way too steep - you can't print on thin air. You can tell this by looking at the layer simulation in the slicer software. Perhaps it was intended to print this with supports. However, this is not mentioned anywhere. I've printed maybe 20 different MMC designs so far, and this is the first one that failed. Maybe the platter design could be tweaked slightly so that the diameter increases as the layers go up, of course, but not quite so drastically. I know we don't want the platter to get too tall, but there might be some room to make it work, i.e., make it print more reliably. Just my two cents.

This is a creative device for situations that call for dice. Plug in a switch (like the Light Touch Switch) and you're golden.