Folding Multicolor Dice

This is more an experiment than anything else.

I was thinking about printing dice in multiple colours, but I always hate the filament changes because it just creates waste.

I wondered if I could print something that could be folded - that way the colour changes could be minimised to just the first layer or two, and the infill plastic inside the dice could be avoided as well. Also, if all the faces are printed onto the plate, the finish is the same on all sides.

So this is what I came up with - you print the dice as a flat piece with hinges, put a small amount of glue on each of the “tabs”, fold it up, and then put it into the assembly jig to hold it together while the glue dries.

It did what I wanted, so I'm happy with it and probably won't be doing much more with this as my curiosity is satisfied now.

The dice are 2.4cm on each side. I made some efforts to ensure that they are reasonably well-balanced (hence the useless internal tabs), though I haven't done any real testing to se