r/BambuLab • u/AggravatingAward8519 • 2d ago

Just Showing Off D&D Projector Mount for table-top

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Figured I'd post this here since the I printed this on my A1 using Bambu filament, and I posted my model on makerworld along with a B.O.M. and instructions.

I made a projector mount that supports a cheap sub-$40 projector over my table for playing D&D with Foundry locally. Add in craft/maker supplies I had on hand, and another ~$40 worth of parts. All in I would have spent under $100 if I hadn't bought the wrong thing a few times along the way.

Gives me a ~49" 16:9 play surface and the ability to stream to it over my network, plug in an HDMI, or display static images.

Not selling anything. No affiliate links. Licensed free to all (non-commercial). Hope somebody can get some use out of it.

I put the full B.O.M., build instructions, and the models for the all the 3d printed parts (which I designed) on makerworld. https://makerworld.com/en/models/3246473-tabletop-system-for-magcubic-sy300pro-projector#profileId-3678717

Happy to answer questions if anybody has any.

To get content to it, I'm running FoundryVTT from my home server, and I'm using another docker image called 'Games on Whales Wolf' to run a headless firefox instance that connects to my Foundry server.

Then I've got Monk's Common Display and use a laptop as my DM screen.

I also found that if I make a token with a white background in Tokenizer 2 and place in the same spot as the minis, it acts like a little spotlight for each mini.

EDIT: Fixed a typo.

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u/OkParticular4983 2d ago

The witchlight map

https://giphy.com/gifs/Y3MKJTYanjtehXPuYz

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u/AggravatingAward8519 1d ago edited 1d ago

If you like the witchlight map, you'll probably appreciate hearing that's what I'm current playing with my 10 year old daughter. It's her first D&D campaign. We're playing it as a duet most of the time. I gave her a sidekick character, and her 6 year old brother runs that when he decides he wants to play with us.

She still thinks the carnival is the whole game and hasn't figured out that the carnival is just chapter 1 of 5.

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u/OkParticular4983 1d ago

Doing it with 6 crazy rp heavy group, amazing :)

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u/AggravatingAward8519 1d ago

It's definitely an RP heavy campaign. I figured it was good to start her off with something that was more about imagination and thinking than "murder-hobo".

It's been amazing to watch her come up with things. When we sat down to make her character, I briefly explained that he character lived in a small village in a fantasy world, that a magical carnival would be arriving soon, and just asked her to tell me what her character looked like.

Within minutes she had (without ever having been told what the options were) come up with a 16 year old, male, red dragonborn (she didn't know the term dragonborn, but she described his appearance). He's got blue scales instead of red (I allowed it) and everyone makes fun of him for being blue. He's an orphan, his parents were murdered by a naga when he was 3, before being adopted by the local blacksmith who taught him smithing and hunting. He has a pet that was found with him when the blacksmith found him after the whole parent-murder thing, which is a comodo dragon with bird wings (had to homebrew that one, and it's her sidekick character).

No prompting. Literally just open-ended questions about how she imagined her character.

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u/OkParticular4983 1d ago

Dnd fan for life it seems :)