Tetromino Tiling Puzzle of Dot Matrix Display
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Tetromino Tiling Puzzle of Dot Matrix Display
A tetromino tiling puzzle that can show all ASCII characters.
- Fill the 8x8 board with 16 tetrominoes.
- Each tetromino has 1 ~ 3 ON-pixels on a single side. (the all pixels on the other side are OFF)
- Surprisingly, it can show all 95 ASCII characters by arranging the pieces.
Supplies
You can print this puzzle with common consumer 3D printers.
3D Print
To give a different color to the pixels, the piece should be printed out with three layers. Please use "Pause at Height" function of your slicer software.
- Piece : Change the materials twice, at h = 1.0mm and 3.0mm
- Board : Change the materials once, at h = 0.8mm
Enjoy!
- Typeface is specified as shown above. the other typefaces are not always possible.
- I confirmed that there is at least one solution for each character using solver program.
- PDFs of goals and solutions are supplied.