Project: Custom Settlers of Catan Board
Settlers of Catan is a game in which players assume the roles of settlers, each attempting to build and develop settlements and cities while trading and acquiring resources. Players gain points as their settlements grow and the first player to reach ten points wins. There are a number of expansion packs available for the game as well. For a period of time, this was a very popular game within the family. However, setting up the board was cumbersome (as was clean-up). So I decided to build a custom Settlers of Catan board (actually, I built two) using wood, an Adafruit Feather board, and NeoPixel LED lights to ease the setup. Upon powering the board, the layout of the various resource tiles (rock, wood, sheep, brick, and wheat) is randomized. I started by build the basic wooden board. I did this by cutting several 1x3 boards into eight different pieces measuring 24" in length. Using Elmer's Wooden Glue , I glued each of the boards togeth...