Mahjongg Tiles

• full set of good quality Mahjong(g) tiles -- 144 tiles in the standard set
• Laser cut in two layers and glued together with epoxy resin
• using the default tile set graphics from KMahjongg -- /usr/share/kde4/apps/kmahjongglib/tilesets/default.svgz
• etched designs filled with wax or paint
• geometry:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong_tiles
  • 4 sizes have been roughly standardized:
  • Size 8 ~ 39 × 30 × 23 mm
  • Size 7.5 ~ 38 × 28 × 22 mm
  • Size 7 ~ 36 × 26 × 21 mm
  • Size 6 ~ 34 × 25 × 19 mm

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  prototype character tile tops
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  stacked 3mm white acrylic, 2x 6mm ply, 6mm green acrylic
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  9 character tiles for gluing up
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  waxing the etch
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  Finished 5 characters tile

Of course, there's plenty of scope for project excitement here when we start looking at the automatic shuffling tables: -

• How automatic mahjong table works -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDNvqS9QPk
• Inside a table by AOTOMO -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xxncOUKL9o
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiXwmig4sbs

Update: I am now learning to play Mahjongg and intend to teach many others to play so that I have enough people to play with! I'm also designing an automatic table for fun!

Update: We now have an automatic Mahjong table at The Dice Cup! Michael Erskine (talk) 13:02, 17 February 2017 (UTC)