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Yaho,

Been learning how to lasercut/engrave, finally at the point I can actually Make Interesting Things. Will be posting up the results there-of here, and the design documents as well for folks who want to use & copy (for non commercial purposes) when it's worthwhile to do so.

'Foss Pattern' is what i'm calling it because "Free/Open Source [Stuff]" is a bit of a mouthful.

Item 1.

Foss Pattern 4x5m2 <Alpha> Ammo Clip
A bit of practical engineering to start. This is in response to using Punisher Vultures just oh so much, and needing an easy way to grab 20 dice at once.
Kit form
Assembled with magnets on the lid
Inverted, showing the lid holding on against the weight of the dice
The magnets used are 2mm diameter, 3mm height in 3mm perspex.

I did perspex first, but 3mm plywood would work just as well, and the first Beta will probably be made of it.

The Alpha unfortunately doesn't take into account 'scooping' the dice into the box and they have to be fed in straight. Consequently I won't post the design since it's a failure.


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Item 2.
The Foss Delta pattern flyer base.

This was made to address the NUISANCE of transporting flyer bases. It solves this by embedding a 1.5mm strip of magnets, each 2mm tall, inside a 3mm oval of perspex. Another 1.5mm strip with 1mm magnets is glued to the bottom of a flyer base. When these two meet, the magnets hold it vertically, and the offset holds it horizontally and to a limited degree diagonally, so that this:

can be accomplished, entirely without gluing the stem to anything but the freestanding cross.
The earlier models used a straight cross which caused the perspex to crack, and didn't have a strip at all - just a slot in the oval for the flyer base to glue in because I wanted clear flyer bases.

inkscape SVG attached.
Having assembled these, I believe it would be possible to have the magnets plug from the stem-side cross directly to the flyer base without getting superglue everywhere, so the Epsilon pattern should do just that.