Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Dice Rolling Machine

Not my usual fare, I know, but: A guy runs a website that caters to play-by-email boardgame players - backgammon, risk, that sort of thing. He needs lots of random numbers - lots and lots of numbers - and to make the players happy he needs to get them from real dice, not a random number generator. So, proving that anything worth doing is worth way, way overdoing, he built an automatic dice rolling machine that can generate over 1.3 million dice rolls per day:



I am so very envious right now.

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