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posted by azrael on Monday July 07 2014, @01:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the die-rolling-overlords dept.

People on Soylent love dice. This robot tosses dice for you when you send it a twitter message.

A tweet to @IntrideaDiceBot with the hashtag #RollTheDice will cause the Dicebot to spin up the dice. Once things have settled, DiceBot captures an image with its Raspberry Pi camera. The dice values are checked using OpenCV.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday July 07 2014, @01:55AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday July 07 2014, @01:55AM (#65046) Homepage

    " People on Soylent love dice. "

    BahahahHEE-HEEhohohooooo! Pretty Slick.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 07 2014, @02:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 07 2014, @02:09AM (#65051)

      Better tossing dice than salad.

  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday July 07 2014, @02:07AM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 07 2014, @02:07AM (#65050)
    "People on Soylent love Dice."

    No they don't, that's why they're here!
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  • (Score: 1) by deimios on Monday July 07 2014, @03:09AM

    by deimios (201) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 07 2014, @03:09AM (#65072) Journal

    Thought this was about timothy. Glad to see it's another kind of dice bot.

  • (Score: 1) by martyb on Monday July 07 2014, @03:37AM

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 07 2014, @03:37AM (#65078) Journal

    I have no reason to doubt that what is claimed is actually done, but how would you know? From TFA:

    It’s a bit hard to push a button from across the world, so [David] added a small motor to spin the tin. He connected the motor to a simple L298 motor driver chip, and wired that up to a Raspberry Pi. The Pi runs a few custom Ruby scripts which get it on the internet and connect to the Twitter API.

    Operation is pretty straightforward. A tweet to @IntrideaDiceBot with the hashtag #RollTheDice will cause the Dicebot to spin up the dice. Once things have settled, DiceBot captures an image with its Raspberry Pi camera. The dice values are checked using OpenCV. The results are then tweeted back, and displayed on DiceBot’s results page.

    OTOH, as demand builds, it would not be hard to imagine that the demand could exceed the device's ability to provide real-time responses. As the *backlog* builds, it seems to me their choices are limited:

    1. drop requests (oops, too bad),
    2. make duplicate system(s) to handle the load (him against a few billion people), or
    3. record a large sample of dice rolls, and then use a pseudo-random number generator to pick one of those.

    NOTE: The dice rolling could proceed non-stop and each result could replace a prior dice-roll-recording.

    OTOH, I can just imagine how much fun it was to get this working - kudos all around!

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  • (Score: 1) by EETech1 on Tuesday July 08 2014, @02:14AM

    by EETech1 (957) on Tuesday July 08 2014, @02:14AM (#65670)

    www.geek.com/chips/need-to-roll-the-dice-1-million-times-per-day-meet-the-dice-o-matic-786961/