After getting tired of wrestling all of my Carcassonne tiles into bags, I decided to take a shot at something better: a tile dispenser! This dispenser will hold all the tiles from the base set along with expansions 1 and 2. Print two if you have more.
The tiles store in the tower itself, ready to be used the next time you play!
Simply insert a pen spring into the base and assemble. It's pretty intuitive!
I strongly recommend calibrating your printer to achieve good tolerances for this print. Here is a video videos made for my specific printer, but the principles apply to all printers.
Basically just find this calibration piece (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1037301), set up two of them at 90 degrees to each other, then follow the steps in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YUTCFqHcTM
Update 11/11/18 -
Added split tower for beds shorter than 10". Just print the two pieces, then glue them at the interface. If that turns out not to work, I'll model in some mating feature.
Also added F3D part files.
| Base.stl | 305.6KB | |
| Button.stl | 353.0KB | |
| Carcassonne_Tile_Dispenser_v27.f3d | 7.0MB | |
| Pusher.stl | 33.2KB | |
| Tower.stl | 1.1MB | |
| Tower_Split_Bottom.stl | 726.6KB | |
| Tower_Split_Top.stl | 773.4KB |
