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
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)