{"id":1229,"date":"2012-01-04T20:58:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T02:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2012-01-04T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:35:05","slug":"japanese-ice-sphere-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2012\/japanese-ice-sphere-mold\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Ice Sphere Mold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I found a video of an awesome &#8220;Japanese Ice Mold&#8221; online. The idea is simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People like drinks cold.<\/li>\n<li>Ice makes things cold.<\/li>\n<li>Ice melts.<\/li>\n<li>People don&#8217;t like water in their drinks.<\/li>\n<li>To prevent melting, you should have the maximum volume (making things cold) with the minimum surface area (melting).<\/li>\n<li>The shape that does this is called a sphere.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s hard to take water and make spheres that don&#8217;t have ugly seams in them.<\/li>\n<li>Through the magic of thermodynamics, you can use a metal to melt some parts of a block of ice, while freezing the resulting water, and get a beautiful sphere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this last bit, the physics student in me is screaming &#8220;but that makes no sense!&#8221; Admittedly, I didn&#8217;t do very well in physics, so it wasn&#8217;t screaming very loudly. I really thought that my brother, Quinlan (who&#8217;s a liquor snob and has more parties than I) needed this for a party. However, the fact that it costs\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantrendshop.com\/ice-ball-mold-iceball-sphere-maker-55mm-p-1076.html\">freaking $1400<\/a> put it\u00a0<em>well<\/em> out of my range; Quinlan didn&#8217;t need it that badly. As I looked at it, though, I realized that it wasn&#8217;t a hard concept: just get a big block of aluminum with a spherical hole, heat it, and you&#8217;re done. Surely, I could make this. If only I was a member of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hackerspace\">hackerspace<\/a> with milling tools&#8230; but wait! I am!<\/p>\n<p>For more, check out <a title=\"Making the Mold\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.ussjoin.com\/2012\/01\/making-the-mold.html\">Making the Mold<\/a> at <a title=\"Times and Measures\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.ussjoin.com\/\">Times and Measures<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I found a video of an awesome &#8220;Japanese Ice Mold&#8221; online. The idea is simple: People like drinks cold. Ice makes things cold. Ice melts. People don&#8217;t like water in their drinks. To prevent melting, you<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2012\/japanese-ice-sphere-mold\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[194,287,291,292,288],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-cnc","tag-ice-mold","tag-mill","tag-rookie","tag-sphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}