{"id":380,"date":"2011-01-17T01:13:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T07:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2011-01-17T01:13:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T07:13:55","slug":"cupcake-challenge-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2011\/cupcake-challenge-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"CupCake Challenge Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The folks over at Hackerspaces.org<\/a> posted an international hackerspace challenge – ship a cupcake as far as possible and score points by completing a variety of tasks<\/a>.\u00a0 Sector67 accepted the challenge and used our newly created vacuum forming machine to crank out a form fitting cupcake shipping container.<\/p>\n

The first step was to create a plaster positive of the bottom of the cupcake for vacuum forming.<\/p>\n

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While waiting for the plaster to cure, a positive for the top of the cupcake was rigged and attempted to vacuum form with 1\/4″ polycarbonate:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"\"\"<\/a>Despite our best effort, we weren’t able to melt the polycarbonate with just the heat gun, so the kiln was rolled out:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>After preheating the plastic it was returned to the vacuum table and heat was again added using the heat gun.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Conceding defeat after the plastic would not form, we moved on to a much thinner sheet of 1\/8″ clear polycarbonate:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>and were immediately met with positive results (pun intended).\u00a0 By this point the plaster base was also ready to mold, so we again used 1\/8″ polycarbonate plastic:<\/p>\n

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Having the two halves created, we were ready to go to the drill and bandsaw to clean things up:
\n\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Bolting things together:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Scott et al. handbaked some cupcakes using a special recipe to give enhanced rigidity without losing any taste or texture points \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Things were looking great when it was boxed up, hopefully it arrives intact at Jigsaw<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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The folks over at Hackerspaces.org posted an international hackerspace challenge – ship a cupcake as far as possible and score points by completing a variety of tasks.\u00a0 Sector67 accepted the challenge and used our newly created vacuum forming machine to…<\/span><\/p>\n

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