Thursday 14 April 2022

It Is The Staple,

of every casino in the world,


and so many board games, what you are looking at is possibly the smallest 6 sided, welded dice in the world,

it was revealed that the minuscule dice was the creation of a team at Mazda Motor Corporation who started out by creating all the facets in a T-shape, then bent them into a cube using fine tweezers, the photos received a lot of attention on Japanese Twitter, with around 30,000 likes and thousands of comments. Most people couldn’t believe that welding the faces of a six-faced 1mm die was even possible, 

apparently, the team challenged itself to create ever-smaller dice ever since the ultra-fine division was inaugurated at Mazda. They started at 100 millimeters about four years ago, and have since been shrinking their creations down to 1 millimeter, “Like surgery, we are welding by holding the die with tweezers while looking at a screen. Breathing causes the hand to move, so it is a work best down while holding your breath,” on of the welders involved in the project said, The die is made from 0.05mm-thick stainless steel plates, the photographs appeared on Reddit, but for some reason today the post has been removed, but what a feat of micro welding!


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