LVL1 - User contributions [en]

Waiver

2012-09-12T04:03:23Z

Joepugh: fixed link to waver under 18 should not ask for auth now

I've pieced together a generic liability waiver that can be found here, feel free to look it over and make any revisions that seem necessary, or scrap the whole thing and put up a new one.

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tGa97fmvGprMVltTeC6DFRURRtstHQtPSS-I7vtlfl4/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNHdjJoJ waiver for persons over 18]

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MH8m3WKWjt_RGYbimhSdgALp6I1Ws7BzXMESlC86_lQ/edit?authkey=CMGU5ZYE waiver for persons under 18]

Grand Projects or Pipe Dreams

2012-03-17T02:02:24Z

Joepugh: /* Grand Projects Discussed But NOT Built */

===== Grand Projects Discussed But NOT Built =====

*Jet Engine - Tim M.
*3D Scanner - Tim M., Joe P., Josh
*Laser Sintering 3D Printer Tim M., Joe P.
*Elevator - John C.
*Pharmacy Robot for Parts Retrieval - John C.
*Mother - All Knowing Hackerspace AI - John C.
*Father - All Cranky Old Guy AI - JAC
*Project Packager - John C.
*Hovercraft Go Cart
*Hackerspace Video Cross Links - John C.
*Taco Gun - Everyone
*Metroid Costume - Joe P.
*Electrocution Alarm Clock - Joe P.
*Autonomous Solar Powered Sleeping Bag - Joe P.
*Augmented Reality Gloves - Tim M.
*Walking Fire Pony Upgrade - Joe P.

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T13:57:49Z

Joepugh: /* InkScape */ Added images and SVG links for laser cutting

==Goal==
The goal of this project was to send a cupcake to another hackerspace. Cupcake should get there in good shape, looking awesome, and not be repulsive when eaten.

More information can be found on [http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Global_Hackerspace_Cupcake_Challenge_2012 Hackerspaces.org]

==Concept==
This year we attempted to make a flat packed Cupcake. By simplifying the the cupcake into a flat mostly square shape packing for stability should be easier. so that all shapes could be cut out of one sheet of cake and still fit squarely together when turned in three dimensional it was necessary to make the shapes out of primitive cubes.
===Clay Model===
Clay was used to make the very first attempt at laying out the model. It ended up being hard to work with as the unfired clay would stick to each other. It did lead to the realisation that the shapes resembled tetras shapes and such determined the theme of the cupcake.
===Sketchup===
Though the first attempt at CAD for the cupcake was in openscad Joe quickly got frustrated with it and swapped to sketch up.

The model was made by making the primitive shapes from Tetris with a third dimension added to them.

The primitives where then duplicated and rotated to fit together in an aesthetically pleasing way. They needed to have a base of 60cmX60cm. The top was left jagged to give the appearance of a Tetris game being played.

To Trim the new completed cube down a cupcake model was generated with the inside dimensions of a cupcake cup along with a cube resting on top.

Preforming a Boolean intersection operation against each of the parts of the cube and the cupcake model gives the modified shapes we need to fit it into the cup.

A duplication of the trimmed model so that it can be laid flat to make the pattern for cutting out of the cake.

Another duplication was made but just of the visible side of the cupcake top. This would be the templates to cut the fondant.

===InkScape===
I would like to say that I just used the Sketchup plug ins to export an SVG of the cupcake layout for cutting into the cake. I would also like to say that I used an unfolding tool and turned the exposed areas of the cupcake top into flag laser cutable paths to cut the fondant but that was not the case. I was unable to get ether to works with plugins I used in the past. I am not sure why but the SVG export tool would not export any part of the cupcake. The unfolding tools I tried did unfold the faces but a key points would unfold them the wrong way.

[[File:Flatpacked.png|link=http://wiki.lvl1.org/images/7/7d/Flatpacked.svg]] 
I ended up turning to Inkscape to draw them by hand. As the blocks are mostly 2cm squares it was easy to draw them out in inkscape. Any place that the shape was cut by the cupcake cut I just modified the line path to match the 3d model.

The unfolded top was told drawn out in Inkscape by hand. I unfolded them in my head and tried to make the seams in favorable places. Again it was made up of fairly uniformed parts so a gird of 2mm helped draw it out fast.
<gallery widths=100px heights=100px perrow=5>
File:Blue_cupcake.png|[http://wiki.lvl1.org/images/2/24/Blue_cupcake.svg SVG]
File:Green_cupcake.png|[http://wiki.lvl1.org/images/5/56/Green_cupcake.svg SVG]
File:Purple_cupcake.png|[http://wiki.lvl1.org/images/2/26/Purple_cupcake.svg SVG]
File:Orange_cupcake.png|[http://wiki.lvl1.org/images/7/75/Orange_cupcake.svg SVG]
File:Red_cupcake.png|[http://wiki.lvl1.org/images/5/54/Red_cupcake.svg SVG]
</gallery>

===openscad===
After Joe swapped to Sketchup Aaron proclaimed that he could make it in Openscad just as fast as Joe could make it in Sketchup. A race was then started both of them trying to make the cube of Tetris peaces. In the end Joe barley beat Aaron in the construction of the cube. Aaron's code will be posted at a tribute of his mad scripting skills.

==Cooking==

===Cake===
[[File:Cake_premake.jpg]] 
The cake that was made for the cupcake was taken from this [http://cakecentral.com/recipe/durable-cake-for-3d-in-chocolate recipe]

The cake was moist and fluffy but held together nicely when cut. I only fear that it was to moist and that the cake will over saturate the fondant making it melt.

[[File:Cake_precut.jpg]] 
The cake was cut into a disk 2cm high. To help we cut acrylic strips to keep he knife level.

[[File:Cake_cutting.jpg]] 
Laser engraving was done on the cake so we know where to cut.

[[File:Cake_shapping.jpg]] 
After the shapes have been cut we needed to trim most of them by eye to fit the 3d model.

===Fondant===
Fondant was chosen for its durability and smooth apprentice. It is not the most pleasant tasting sugar topping but it was a trade of we decided to take.

[[File:Fondant_color.jpg]][[File:Fondant_mixed.jpg]] 
[[File:Fondant_smashed.jpg]][[File:Fondant_smashed01.jpg]] 
It was worked till it was soft then food coloring was added to make the "official" colors of the Tetris shapes. after the food coloring was worked onto the fondant so it was not puddling on top it was ran through a pasta maker to mix it in the rest of the way. Letting it sit for 5 min let the colors come out better.

[[File:Fondant_sheet.jpg]] 
The fondant was then rolled out using a fondant roller. They are non stick to keep the fondant from pulling up and gives it the very smooth look.

A light engraving was then cut into the sheet of fondant with a laser cutter at 100% speed and 1% power. This is just to give a line to cut on. I was unable to get the fondant to cut fully with the laser cutter without giving it a very unpleasant burnt flavor.

[[File:Fondant_folded.jpg]] 
The fondant was then cut long the lines and folded back into the 3d shape needed for the cupcake top.

[[File:Fondant_iced.jpg]] 
A very thin layer of butter cream icing was used to coat the inside of the fondant. This is to hopefully make it taste better. Unfortunately I think the layer of butter cream was too thing to over power the flavor of the fondant. It is also hopped that this layer of butter cream will help protect the fondant from absorbing to much of the moisture in the cake.

==Packaging==
===Box===
The is normally very important to shipping the cupcakes. With the flat pack attempt of this cupcake just needed to be a formfitting shape. A plug in was used for Inkscape to make a [http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10403 tabbed box]. It was cut out of .08" (about 2.03mm) acrylic. The box then had a LVL1 logo rastered into one side and an image based on the interface for the NES Tetris game on the other side.

[[File:Box_packed.jpg]] 
The thinness of the box was a problem when put into a vacuum seal bag as it was unable to hold up the the pressure. To keep it from collapsing small intersecting plains of acrylic where scattered about the box to keep it from smashing the cupcake.

===CO2===
 
[[File:Box_co2.jpg]] 
There is an extrema amount of surface area on the cupcake greatly increasing the rate at witch it will go stale. To help decrease this dry ice was used to flood the package with CO2 before shipping. This risk dropping the temperature of the fondant too fast and causing condensation on it. To prevent the condensation the drive ice only gassed into the package for a short time.

====Vacuum Seal====
 
[[File:Box_vacuum.jpg]] 
After the package was flooded with CO2 it was vacuum seated with a home vacuum sealing appliance. This may have rendered the process of adding CO2 moot but both was preformed as I did not know how much of a vacuum would be pulled. The vacuum sealing did become problematic as the box needed to be reinforced to not collapse under the strain. It had the added benefit of holding the box together. We did not want to glue the box for fear of contaminating the cupcake. The pressure applied by the vacuum sealed bad seems to be holding the walls of the box in place.

File:Red cupcake.svg

2012-02-29T13:55:37Z

Joepugh:

File:Red cupcake.png

2012-02-29T13:54:42Z

Joepugh:

File:Purple cupcake.svg

2012-02-29T13:54:00Z

Joepugh:

File:Purple cupcake.png

2012-02-29T13:52:22Z

Joepugh:

File:Orange cupcake.svg

2012-02-29T13:51:48Z

Joepugh:

File:Orange cupcake.png

2012-02-29T13:51:18Z

Joepugh:

File:Green cupcake.svg

2012-02-29T13:34:00Z

Joepugh:

File:Blue cupcake.svg

2012-02-29T13:33:40Z

Joepugh:

File:Green cupcake.png

2012-02-29T13:33:10Z

Joepugh:

File:Blue cupcake.png

2012-02-29T13:32:42Z

Joepugh:

File:Flatpacked.png

2012-02-29T13:18:54Z

Joepugh:

File:Flatpacked.svg

2012-02-29T13:16:22Z

Joepugh:

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T13:15:12Z

Joepugh: /* Goal */ spelling

==Goal==
The goal of this project was to send a cupcake to another hackerspace. Cupcake should get there in good shape, looking awesome, and not be repulsive when eaten.

More information can be found on [http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Global_Hackerspace_Cupcake_Challenge_2012 Hackerspaces.org]

==Concept==
This year we attempted to make a flat packed Cupcake. By simplifying the the cupcake into a flat mostly square shape packing for stability should be easier. so that all shapes could be cut out of one sheet of cake and still fit squarely together when turned in three dimensional it was necessary to make the shapes out of primitive cubes.
===Clay Model===
Clay was used to make the very first attempt at laying out the model. It ended up being hard to work with as the unfired clay would stick to each other. It did lead to the realisation that the shapes resembled tetras shapes and such determined the theme of the cupcake.
===Sketchup===
Though the first attempt at CAD for the cupcake was in openscad Joe quickly got frustrated with it and swapped to sketch up.

The model was made by making the primitive shapes from Tetris with a third dimension added to them.

The primitives where then duplicated and rotated to fit together in an aesthetically pleasing way. They needed to have a base of 60cmX60cm. The top was left jagged to give the appearance of a Tetris game being played.

To Trim the new completed cube down a cupcake model was generated with the inside dimensions of a cupcake cup along with a cube resting on top.

Preforming a Boolean intersection operation against each of the parts of the cube and the cupcake model gives the modified shapes we need to fit it into the cup.

A duplication of the trimmed model so that it can be laid flat to make the pattern for cutting out of the cake.

Another duplication was made but just of the visible side of the cupcake top. This would be the templates to cut the fondant.

===InkScape===
I would like to say that I just used the Sketchup plug ins to export an SVG of the cupcake layout for cutting into the cake. I would also like to say that I used an unfolding tool and turned the exposed areas of the cupcake top into flag laser cutable paths to cut the fondant but that was not the case. I was unable to get ether to works with plugins I used in the past. I am not sure why but the SVG export tool would not export any part of the cupcake. The unfolding tools I tried did unfold the faces but a key points would unfold them the wrong way.

I ended up turning to Inkscape to draw them by hand. As the blocks are mostly 2cm squares it was easy to draw them out in inkscape. Any place that the shape was cut by the cupcake cut I just modified the line path to match the 3d model.

The unfolded top was told drawn out in Inkscape by hand. I unfolded them in my head and tried to make the seams in favorable places. Again it was made up of fairly uniformed parts so a gird of 2mm helped draw it out fast.

===openscad===
After Joe swapped to Sketchup Aaron proclaimed that he could make it in Openscad just as fast as Joe could make it in Sketchup. A race was then started both of them trying to make the cube of Tetris peaces. In the end Joe barley beat Aaron in the construction of the cube. Aaron's code will be posted at a tribute of his mad scripting skills.

==Cooking==

===Cake===
[[File:Cake_premake.jpg]] 
The cake that was made for the cupcake was taken from this [http://cakecentral.com/recipe/durable-cake-for-3d-in-chocolate recipe]

The cake was moist and fluffy but held together nicely when cut. I only fear that it was to moist and that the cake will over saturate the fondant making it melt.

[[File:Cake_precut.jpg]] 
The cake was cut into a disk 2cm high. To help we cut acrylic strips to keep he knife level.

[[File:Cake_cutting.jpg]] 
Laser engraving was done on the cake so we know where to cut.

[[File:Cake_shapping.jpg]] 
After the shapes have been cut we needed to trim most of them by eye to fit the 3d model.

===Fondant===
Fondant was chosen for its durability and smooth apprentice. It is not the most pleasant tasting sugar topping but it was a trade of we decided to take.

[[File:Fondant_color.jpg]][[File:Fondant_mixed.jpg]] 
[[File:Fondant_smashed.jpg]][[File:Fondant_smashed01.jpg]] 
It was worked till it was soft then food coloring was added to make the "official" colors of the Tetris shapes. after the food coloring was worked onto the fondant so it was not puddling on top it was ran through a pasta maker to mix it in the rest of the way. Letting it sit for 5 min let the colors come out better.

[[File:Fondant_sheet.jpg]] 
The fondant was then rolled out using a fondant roller. They are non stick to keep the fondant from pulling up and gives it the very smooth look.

A light engraving was then cut into the sheet of fondant with a laser cutter at 100% speed and 1% power. This is just to give a line to cut on. I was unable to get the fondant to cut fully with the laser cutter without giving it a very unpleasant burnt flavor.

[[File:Fondant_folded.jpg]] 
The fondant was then cut long the lines and folded back into the 3d shape needed for the cupcake top.

[[File:Fondant_iced.jpg]] 
A very thin layer of butter cream icing was used to coat the inside of the fondant. This is to hopefully make it taste better. Unfortunately I think the layer of butter cream was too thing to over power the flavor of the fondant. It is also hopped that this layer of butter cream will help protect the fondant from absorbing to much of the moisture in the cake.

==Packaging==
===Box===
The is normally very important to shipping the cupcakes. With the flat pack attempt of this cupcake just needed to be a formfitting shape. A plug in was used for Inkscape to make a [http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10403 tabbed box]. It was cut out of .08" (about 2.03mm) acrylic. The box then had a LVL1 logo rastered into one side and an image based on the interface for the NES Tetris game on the other side.

[[File:Box_packed.jpg]] 
The thinness of the box was a problem when put into a vacuum seal bag as it was unable to hold up the the pressure. To keep it from collapsing small intersecting plains of acrylic where scattered about the box to keep it from smashing the cupcake.

===CO2===
 
[[File:Box_co2.jpg]] 
There is an extrema amount of surface area on the cupcake greatly increasing the rate at witch it will go stale. To help decrease this dry ice was used to flood the package with CO2 before shipping. This risk dropping the temperature of the fondant too fast and causing condensation on it. To prevent the condensation the drive ice only gassed into the package for a short time.

====Vacuum Seal====
 
[[File:Box_vacuum.jpg]] 
After the package was flooded with CO2 it was vacuum seated with a home vacuum sealing appliance. This may have rendered the process of adding CO2 moot but both was preformed as I did not know how much of a vacuum would be pulled. The vacuum sealing did become problematic as the box needed to be reinforced to not collapse under the strain. It had the added benefit of holding the box together. We did not want to glue the box for fear of contaminating the cupcake. The pressure applied by the vacuum sealed bad seems to be holding the walls of the box in place.

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T05:02:12Z

Joepugh: /* Packaging */ Added image

==Goal==
The goal of this project was to two send a cupcake to another hackerspace. Cupcake should get there in good shape, looking awesome, and not be repulsive when eaten.

More information can be found on [http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Global_Hackerspace_Cupcake_Challenge_2012 Hackerspaces.org]
==Concept==
This year we attempted to make a flat packed Cupcake. By simplifying the the cupcake into a flat mostly square shape packing for stability should be easier. so that all shapes could be cut out of one sheet of cake and still fit squarely together when turned in three dimensional it was necessary to make the shapes out of primitive cubes.
===Clay Model===
Clay was used to make the very first attempt at laying out the model. It ended up being hard to work with as the unfired clay would stick to each other. It did lead to the realisation that the shapes resembled tetras shapes and such determined the theme of the cupcake.
===Sketchup===
Though the first attempt at CAD for the cupcake was in openscad Joe quickly got frustrated with it and swapped to sketch up.

The model was made by making the primitive shapes from Tetris with a third dimension added to them.

The primitives where then duplicated and rotated to fit together in an aesthetically pleasing way. They needed to have a base of 60cmX60cm. The top was left jagged to give the appearance of a Tetris game being played.

To Trim the new completed cube down a cupcake model was generated with the inside dimensions of a cupcake cup along with a cube resting on top.

Preforming a Boolean intersection operation against each of the parts of the cube and the cupcake model gives the modified shapes we need to fit it into the cup.

A duplication of the trimmed model so that it can be laid flat to make the pattern for cutting out of the cake.

Another duplication was made but just of the visible side of the cupcake top. This would be the templates to cut the fondant.

===InkScape===
I would like to say that I just used the Sketchup plug ins to export an SVG of the cupcake layout for cutting into the cake. I would also like to say that I used an unfolding tool and turned the exposed areas of the cupcake top into flag laser cutable paths to cut the fondant but that was not the case. I was unable to get ether to works with plugins I used in the past. I am not sure why but the SVG export tool would not export any part of the cupcake. The unfolding tools I tried did unfold the faces but a key points would unfold them the wrong way.

I ended up turning to Inkscape to draw them by hand. As the blocks are mostly 2cm squares it was easy to draw them out in inkscape. Any place that the shape was cut by the cupcake cut I just modified the line path to match the 3d model.

The unfolded top was told drawn out in Inkscape by hand. I unfolded them in my head and tried to make the seams in favorable places. Again it was made up of fairly uniformed parts so a gird of 2mm helped draw it out fast.

===openscad===
After Joe swapped to Sketchup Aaron proclaimed that he could make it in Openscad just as fast as Joe could make it in Sketchup. A race was then started both of them trying to make the cube of Tetris peaces. In the end Joe barley beat Aaron in the construction of the cube. Aaron's code will be posted at a tribute of his mad scripting skills.

==Cooking==

===Cake===
[[File:Cake_premake.jpg]] 
The cake that was made for the cupcake was taken from this [http://cakecentral.com/recipe/durable-cake-for-3d-in-chocolate recipe]

The cake was moist and fluffy but held together nicely when cut. I only fear that it was to moist and that the cake will over saturate the fondant making it melt.

[[File:Cake_precut.jpg]] 
The cake was cut into a disk 2cm high. To help we cut acrylic strips to keep he knife level.

[[File:Cake_cutting.jpg]] 
Laser engraving was done on the cake so we know where to cut.

[[File:Cake_shapping.jpg]] 
After the shapes have been cut we needed to trim most of them by eye to fit the 3d model.

===Fondant===
Fondant was chosen for its durability and smooth apprentice. It is not the most pleasant tasting sugar topping but it was a trade of we decided to take.

[[File:Fondant_color.jpg]][[File:Fondant_mixed.jpg]] 
[[File:Fondant_smashed.jpg]][[File:Fondant_smashed01.jpg]] 
It was worked till it was soft then food coloring was added to make the "official" colors of the Tetris shapes. after the food coloring was worked onto the fondant so it was not puddling on top it was ran through a pasta maker to mix it in the rest of the way. Letting it sit for 5 min let the colors come out better.

[[File:Fondant_sheet.jpg]] 
The fondant was then rolled out using a fondant roller. They are non stick to keep the fondant from pulling up and gives it the very smooth look.

A light engraving was then cut into the sheet of fondant with a laser cutter at 100% speed and 1% power. This is just to give a line to cut on. I was unable to get the fondant to cut fully with the laser cutter without giving it a very unpleasant burnt flavor.

[[File:Fondant_folded.jpg]] 
The fondant was then cut long the lines and folded back into the 3d shape needed for the cupcake top.

[[File:Fondant_iced.jpg]] 
A very thin layer of butter cream icing was used to coat the inside of the fondant. This is to hopefully make it taste better. Unfortunately I think the layer of butter cream was too thing to over power the flavor of the fondant. It is also hopped that this layer of butter cream will help protect the fondant from absorbing to much of the moisture in the cake.

==Packaging==
===Box===
The is normally very important to shipping the cupcakes. With the flat pack attempt of this cupcake just needed to be a formfitting shape. A plug in was used for Inkscape to make a [http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10403 tabbed box]. It was cut out of .08" (about 2.03mm) acrylic. The box then had a LVL1 logo rastered into one side and an image based on the interface for the NES Tetris game on the other side.

[[File:Box_packed.jpg]] 
The thinness of the box was a problem when put into a vacuum seal bag as it was unable to hold up the the pressure. To keep it from collapsing small intersecting plains of acrylic where scattered about the box to keep it from smashing the cupcake.

===CO2===
 
[[File:Box_co2.jpg]] 
There is an extrema amount of surface area on the cupcake greatly increasing the rate at witch it will go stale. To help decrease this dry ice was used to flood the package with CO2 before shipping. This risk dropping the temperature of the fondant too fast and causing condensation on it. To prevent the condensation the drive ice only gassed into the package for a short time.

====Vacuum Seal====
 
[[File:Box_vacuum.jpg]] 
After the package was flooded with CO2 it was vacuum seated with a home vacuum sealing appliance. This may have rendered the process of adding CO2 moot but both was preformed as I did not know how much of a vacuum would be pulled. The vacuum sealing did become problematic as the box needed to be reinforced to not collapse under the strain. It had the added benefit of holding the box together. We did not want to glue the box for fear of contaminating the cupcake. The pressure applied by the vacuum sealed bad seems to be holding the walls of the box in place.

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T04:58:01Z

Joepugh: /* Fondant */ added images

==Goal==
The goal of this project was to two send a cupcake to another hackerspace. Cupcake should get there in good shape, looking awesome, and not be repulsive when eaten.

More information can be found on [http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Global_Hackerspace_Cupcake_Challenge_2012 Hackerspaces.org]
==Concept==
This year we attempted to make a flat packed Cupcake. By simplifying the the cupcake into a flat mostly square shape packing for stability should be easier. so that all shapes could be cut out of one sheet of cake and still fit squarely together when turned in three dimensional it was necessary to make the shapes out of primitive cubes.
===Clay Model===
Clay was used to make the very first attempt at laying out the model. It ended up being hard to work with as the unfired clay would stick to each other. It did lead to the realisation that the shapes resembled tetras shapes and such determined the theme of the cupcake.
===Sketchup===
Though the first attempt at CAD for the cupcake was in openscad Joe quickly got frustrated with it and swapped to sketch up.

The model was made by making the primitive shapes from Tetris with a third dimension added to them.

The primitives where then duplicated and rotated to fit together in an aesthetically pleasing way. They needed to have a base of 60cmX60cm. The top was left jagged to give the appearance of a Tetris game being played.

To Trim the new completed cube down a cupcake model was generated with the inside dimensions of a cupcake cup along with a cube resting on top.

Preforming a Boolean intersection operation against each of the parts of the cube and the cupcake model gives the modified shapes we need to fit it into the cup.

A duplication of the trimmed model so that it can be laid flat to make the pattern for cutting out of the cake.

Another duplication was made but just of the visible side of the cupcake top. This would be the templates to cut the fondant.

===InkScape===
I would like to say that I just used the Sketchup plug ins to export an SVG of the cupcake layout for cutting into the cake. I would also like to say that I used an unfolding tool and turned the exposed areas of the cupcake top into flag laser cutable paths to cut the fondant but that was not the case. I was unable to get ether to works with plugins I used in the past. I am not sure why but the SVG export tool would not export any part of the cupcake. The unfolding tools I tried did unfold the faces but a key points would unfold them the wrong way.

I ended up turning to Inkscape to draw them by hand. As the blocks are mostly 2cm squares it was easy to draw them out in inkscape. Any place that the shape was cut by the cupcake cut I just modified the line path to match the 3d model.

The unfolded top was told drawn out in Inkscape by hand. I unfolded them in my head and tried to make the seams in favorable places. Again it was made up of fairly uniformed parts so a gird of 2mm helped draw it out fast.

===openscad===
After Joe swapped to Sketchup Aaron proclaimed that he could make it in Openscad just as fast as Joe could make it in Sketchup. A race was then started both of them trying to make the cube of Tetris peaces. In the end Joe barley beat Aaron in the construction of the cube. Aaron's code will be posted at a tribute of his mad scripting skills.

==Cooking==

===Cake===
[[File:Cake_premake.jpg]] 
The cake that was made for the cupcake was taken from this [http://cakecentral.com/recipe/durable-cake-for-3d-in-chocolate recipe]

The cake was moist and fluffy but held together nicely when cut. I only fear that it was to moist and that the cake will over saturate the fondant making it melt.

[[File:Cake_precut.jpg]] 
The cake was cut into a disk 2cm high. To help we cut acrylic strips to keep he knife level.

[[File:Cake_cutting.jpg]] 
Laser engraving was done on the cake so we know where to cut.

[[File:Cake_shapping.jpg]] 
After the shapes have been cut we needed to trim most of them by eye to fit the 3d model.

===Fondant===
Fondant was chosen for its durability and smooth apprentice. It is not the most pleasant tasting sugar topping but it was a trade of we decided to take.

[[File:Fondant_color.jpg]][[File:Fondant_mixed.jpg]] 
[[File:Fondant_smashed.jpg]][[File:Fondant_smashed01.jpg]] 
It was worked till it was soft then food coloring was added to make the "official" colors of the Tetris shapes. after the food coloring was worked onto the fondant so it was not puddling on top it was ran through a pasta maker to mix it in the rest of the way. Letting it sit for 5 min let the colors come out better.

[[File:Fondant_sheet.jpg]] 
The fondant was then rolled out using a fondant roller. They are non stick to keep the fondant from pulling up and gives it the very smooth look.

A light engraving was then cut into the sheet of fondant with a laser cutter at 100% speed and 1% power. This is just to give a line to cut on. I was unable to get the fondant to cut fully with the laser cutter without giving it a very unpleasant burnt flavor.

[[File:Fondant_folded.jpg]] 
The fondant was then cut long the lines and folded back into the 3d shape needed for the cupcake top.

[[File:Fondant_iced.jpg]] 
A very thin layer of butter cream icing was used to coat the inside of the fondant. This is to hopefully make it taste better. Unfortunately I think the layer of butter cream was too thing to over power the flavor of the fondant. It is also hopped that this layer of butter cream will help protect the fondant from absorbing to much of the moisture in the cake.

==Packaging==
===Box===
The is normally very important to shipping the cupcakes. With the flat pack attempt of this cupcake just needed to be a formfitting shape. A plug in was used for Inkscape to make a [http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10403 tabbed box]. It was cut out of .08" (about 2.03mm) acrylic. The box then had a LVL1 logo rastered into one side and an image based on the interface for the NES Tetris game on the other side.

The thinness of the box was a problem when put into a vacuum seal bag as it was unable to hold up the the pressure. To keep it from collapsing small intersecting plains of acrylic where scattered about the box to keep it from smashing the cupcake.

===CO2===
There is an extrema amount of surface area on the cupcake greatly increasing the rate at witch it will go stale. To help decrease this dry ice was used to flood the package with CO2 before shipping. This risk dropping the temperature of the fondant too fast and causing condensation on it. To prevent the condensation the drive ice only gassed into the package for a short time.

====Vacuum Seal====
After the package was flooded with CO2 it was vacuum seated with a home vacuum sealing appliance. This may have rendered the process of adding CO2 moot but both was preformed as I did not know how much of a vacuum would be pulled. The vacuum sealing did become problematic as the box needed to be reinforced to not collapse under the strain. It had the added benefit of holding the box together. We did not want to glue the box for fear of contaminating the cupcake. The pressure applied by the vacuum sealed bad seems to be holding the walls of the box in place.

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T04:46:38Z

Joepugh: /* Cake */

==Goal==
The goal of this project was to two send a cupcake to another hackerspace. Cupcake should get there in good shape, looking awesome, and not be repulsive when eaten.

More information can be found on [http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Global_Hackerspace_Cupcake_Challenge_2012 Hackerspaces.org]
==Concept==
This year we attempted to make a flat packed Cupcake. By simplifying the the cupcake into a flat mostly square shape packing for stability should be easier. so that all shapes could be cut out of one sheet of cake and still fit squarely together when turned in three dimensional it was necessary to make the shapes out of primitive cubes.
===Clay Model===
Clay was used to make the very first attempt at laying out the model. It ended up being hard to work with as the unfired clay would stick to each other. It did lead to the realisation that the shapes resembled tetras shapes and such determined the theme of the cupcake.
===Sketchup===
Though the first attempt at CAD for the cupcake was in openscad Joe quickly got frustrated with it and swapped to sketch up.

The model was made by making the primitive shapes from Tetris with a third dimension added to them.

The primitives where then duplicated and rotated to fit together in an aesthetically pleasing way. They needed to have a base of 60cmX60cm. The top was left jagged to give the appearance of a Tetris game being played.

To Trim the new completed cube down a cupcake model was generated with the inside dimensions of a cupcake cup along with a cube resting on top.

Preforming a Boolean intersection operation against each of the parts of the cube and the cupcake model gives the modified shapes we need to fit it into the cup.

A duplication of the trimmed model so that it can be laid flat to make the pattern for cutting out of the cake.

Another duplication was made but just of the visible side of the cupcake top. This would be the templates to cut the fondant.

===InkScape===
I would like to say that I just used the Sketchup plug ins to export an SVG of the cupcake layout for cutting into the cake. I would also like to say that I used an unfolding tool and turned the exposed areas of the cupcake top into flag laser cutable paths to cut the fondant but that was not the case. I was unable to get ether to works with plugins I used in the past. I am not sure why but the SVG export tool would not export any part of the cupcake. The unfolding tools I tried did unfold the faces but a key points would unfold them the wrong way.

I ended up turning to Inkscape to draw them by hand. As the blocks are mostly 2cm squares it was easy to draw them out in inkscape. Any place that the shape was cut by the cupcake cut I just modified the line path to match the 3d model.

The unfolded top was told drawn out in Inkscape by hand. I unfolded them in my head and tried to make the seams in favorable places. Again it was made up of fairly uniformed parts so a gird of 2mm helped draw it out fast.

===openscad===
After Joe swapped to Sketchup Aaron proclaimed that he could make it in Openscad just as fast as Joe could make it in Sketchup. A race was then started both of them trying to make the cube of Tetris peaces. In the end Joe barley beat Aaron in the construction of the cube. Aaron's code will be posted at a tribute of his mad scripting skills.

==Cooking==

===Cake===
[[File:Cake_premake.jpg]] 
The cake that was made for the cupcake was taken from this [http://cakecentral.com/recipe/durable-cake-for-3d-in-chocolate recipe]

The cake was moist and fluffy but held together nicely when cut. I only fear that it was to moist and that the cake will over saturate the fondant making it melt.

[[File:Cake_precut.jpg]] 
The cake was cut into a disk 2cm high. To help we cut acrylic strips to keep he knife level.

[[File:Cake_cutting.jpg]] 
Laser engraving was done on the cake so we know where to cut.

[[File:Cake_shapping.jpg]] 
After the shapes have been cut we needed to trim most of them by eye to fit the 3d model.

===Fondant===
Fondant was chosen for its durability and smooth apprentice. It is not the most pleasant tasting sugar topping but it was a trade of we decided to take.

It was worked till it was soft then food coloring was added to make the "office" colors of the Tetris shapes. after the food coloring was worked onto the fondant so it was not puddling on top it was ran through a pasta maker to mix it in the rest of the way. Letting it sit for 5 min let the colors come out better.

The fondant was then rolled out using a fondant roller. They are non stick to keep the fondant from pulling up and gives it the very smooth look.

A light engraving was then cut into the sheet of fondant with a laser cutter at 100% speed and 1% power. This is just to give a line to cut on. I was unable to get the fondant to cut fully with the laser cutter without giving it a very unpleasant burnt flavor.

The fondant was then cut long the lines and folded back into the 3d shape needed for the cupcake top.

A very thin layer of butter cream icing was used to coat the inside of the fondant. This is to hopefully make it taste better. Unfortunately I think the layer of butter cream was too thing to over power the flavor of the fondant. It is also hopped that this layer of butter cream will help protect the fondant from absorbing to much of the moisture in the cake.

==Packaging==
===Box===
The is normally very important to shipping the cupcakes. With the flat pack attempt of this cupcake just needed to be a formfitting shape. A plug in was used for Inkscape to make a [http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10403 tabbed box]. It was cut out of .08" (about 2.03mm) acrylic. The box then had a LVL1 logo rastered into one side and an image based on the interface for the NES Tetris game on the other side.

The thinness of the box was a problem when put into a vacuum seal bag as it was unable to hold up the the pressure. To keep it from collapsing small intersecting plains of acrylic where scattered about the box to keep it from smashing the cupcake.

===CO2===
There is an extrema amount of surface area on the cupcake greatly increasing the rate at witch it will go stale. To help decrease this dry ice was used to flood the package with CO2 before shipping. This risk dropping the temperature of the fondant too fast and causing condensation on it. To prevent the condensation the drive ice only gassed into the package for a short time.

====Vacuum Seal====
After the package was flooded with CO2 it was vacuum seated with a home vacuum sealing appliance. This may have rendered the process of adding CO2 moot but both was preformed as I did not know how much of a vacuum would be pulled. The vacuum sealing did become problematic as the box needed to be reinforced to not collapse under the strain. It had the added benefit of holding the box together. We did not want to glue the box for fear of contaminating the cupcake. The pressure applied by the vacuum sealed bad seems to be holding the walls of the box in place.

File:Box vacuum.jpg

2012-02-29T04:29:12Z

Joepugh:

File:Box packed.jpg

2012-02-29T04:29:03Z

Joepugh:

File:Box co2.jpg

2012-02-29T04:28:54Z

Joepugh:

File:Cake shapping.jpg

2012-02-29T04:26:06Z

Joepugh:

File:Cake premake.jpg

2012-02-29T04:25:46Z

Joepugh:

File:Cake precut.jpg

2012-02-29T04:25:35Z

Joepugh:

File:Cake cutting.jpg

2012-02-29T04:25:23Z

Joepugh:

File:Fondant ball.jpg

2012-02-29T04:22:07Z

Joepugh:

File:Fondant smashed01.jpg

2012-02-29T04:21:07Z

Joepugh:

File:Fondant smashed.jpg

2012-02-29T04:20:53Z

Joepugh:

File:Fondant sheet.jpg

2012-02-29T04:20:41Z

Joepugh:

File:Fondant iced.jpg

2012-02-29T04:19:45Z

Joepugh:

File:Fondant folded.jpg

2012-02-29T04:19:32Z

Joepugh:

File:Fondant mixed.jpg

2012-02-29T04:18:19Z

Joepugh:

File:Fondant color.jpg

2012-02-29T04:02:38Z

Joepugh:

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T03:46:30Z

Joepugh: /* Packaging */

==Goal==
The goal of this project was to two send a cupcake to another hackerspace. Cupcake should get there in good shape, looking awesome, and not be repulsive when eaten.

More information can be found on [http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Global_Hackerspace_Cupcake_Challenge_2012 Hackerspaces.org]
==Concept==
This year we attempted to make a flat packed Cupcake. By simplifying the the cupcake into a flat mostly square shape packing for stability should be easier. so that all shapes could be cut out of one sheet of cake and still fit squarely together when turned in three dimensional it was necessary to make the shapes out of primitive cubes.
===Clay Model===
Clay was used to make the very first attempt at laying out the model. It ended up being hard to work with as the unfired clay would stick to each other. It did lead to the realisation that the shapes resembled tetras shapes and such determined the theme of the cupcake.
===Sketchup===
Though the first attempt at CAD for the cupcake was in openscad Joe quickly got frustrated with it and swapped to sketch up.

The model was made by making the primitive shapes from Tetris with a third dimension added to them.

The primitives where then duplicated and rotated to fit together in an aesthetically pleasing way. They needed to have a base of 60cmX60cm. The top was left jagged to give the appearance of a Tetris game being played.

To Trim the new completed cube down a cupcake model was generated with the inside dimensions of a cupcake cup along with a cube resting on top.

Preforming a Boolean intersection operation against each of the parts of the cube and the cupcake model gives the modified shapes we need to fit it into the cup.

A duplication of the trimmed model so that it can be laid flat to make the pattern for cutting out of the cake.

Another duplication was made but just of the visible side of the cupcake top. This would be the templates to cut the fondant.

===InkScape===
I would like to say that I just used the Sketchup plug ins to export an SVG of the cupcake layout for cutting into the cake. I would also like to say that I used an unfolding tool and turned the exposed areas of the cupcake top into flag laser cutable paths to cut the fondant but that was not the case. I was unable to get ether to works with plugins I used in the past. I am not sure why but the SVG export tool would not export any part of the cupcake. The unfolding tools I tried did unfold the faces but a key points would unfold them the wrong way.

I ended up turning to Inkscape to draw them by hand. As the blocks are mostly 2cm squares it was easy to draw them out in inkscape. Any place that the shape was cut by the cupcake cut I just modified the line path to match the 3d model.

The unfolded top was told drawn out in Inkscape by hand. I unfolded them in my head and tried to make the seams in favorable places. Again it was made up of fairly uniformed parts so a gird of 2mm helped draw it out fast.

===openscad===
After Joe swapped to Sketchup Aaron proclaimed that he could make it in Openscad just as fast as Joe could make it in Sketchup. A race was then started both of them trying to make the cube of Tetris peaces. In the end Joe barley beat Aaron in the construction of the cube. Aaron's code will be posted at a tribute of his mad scripting skills.

==Cooking==

===Cake===
The cake that was made for the cupcake was taken from this [http://cakecentral.com/recipe/durable-cake-for-3d-in-chocolate recipe]

The cake was moist and fluffy but held together nicely when cut. I only fear that it was to moist and that the cake will over saturate the fondant making it melt.

===Fondant===
Fondant was chosen for its durability and smooth apprentice. It is not the most pleasant tasting sugar topping but it was a trade of we decided to take.

It was worked till it was soft then food coloring was added to make the "office" colors of the Tetris shapes. after the food coloring was worked onto the fondant so it was not puddling on top it was ran through a pasta maker to mix it in the rest of the way. Letting it sit for 5 min let the colors come out better.

The fondant was then rolled out using a fondant roller. They are non stick to keep the fondant from pulling up and gives it the very smooth look.

A light engraving was then cut into the sheet of fondant with a laser cutter at 100% speed and 1% power. This is just to give a line to cut on. I was unable to get the fondant to cut fully with the laser cutter without giving it a very unpleasant burnt flavor.

The fondant was then cut long the lines and folded back into the 3d shape needed for the cupcake top.

A very thin layer of butter cream icing was used to coat the inside of the fondant. This is to hopefully make it taste better. Unfortunately I think the layer of butter cream was too thing to over power the flavor of the fondant. It is also hopped that this layer of butter cream will help protect the fondant from absorbing to much of the moisture in the cake.

==Packaging==
===Box===
The is normally very important to shipping the cupcakes. With the flat pack attempt of this cupcake just needed to be a formfitting shape. A plug in was used for Inkscape to make a [http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10403 tabbed box]. It was cut out of .08" (about 2.03mm) acrylic. The box then had a LVL1 logo rastered into one side and an image based on the interface for the NES Tetris game on the other side.

The thinness of the box was a problem when put into a vacuum seal bag as it was unable to hold up the the pressure. To keep it from collapsing small intersecting plains of acrylic where scattered about the box to keep it from smashing the cupcake.

===CO2===
There is an extrema amount of surface area on the cupcake greatly increasing the rate at witch it will go stale. To help decrease this dry ice was used to flood the package with CO2 before shipping. This risk dropping the temperature of the fondant too fast and causing condensation on it. To prevent the condensation the drive ice only gassed into the package for a short time.

====Vacuum Seal====
After the package was flooded with CO2 it was vacuum seated with a home vacuum sealing appliance. This may have rendered the process of adding CO2 moot but both was preformed as I did not know how much of a vacuum would be pulled. The vacuum sealing did become problematic as the box needed to be reinforced to not collapse under the strain. It had the added benefit of holding the box together. We did not want to glue the box for fear of contaminating the cupcake. The pressure applied by the vacuum sealed bad seems to be holding the walls of the box in place.

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T03:45:46Z

Joepugh: /* Packaging */

==Goal==
The goal of this project was to two send a cupcake to another hackerspace. Cupcake should get there in good shape, looking awesome, and not be repulsive when eaten.

More information can be found on [http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Global_Hackerspace_Cupcake_Challenge_2012 Hackerspaces.org]
==Concept==
This year we attempted to make a flat packed Cupcake. By simplifying the the cupcake into a flat mostly square shape packing for stability should be easier. so that all shapes could be cut out of one sheet of cake and still fit squarely together when turned in three dimensional it was necessary to make the shapes out of primitive cubes.
===Clay Model===
Clay was used to make the very first attempt at laying out the model. It ended up being hard to work with as the unfired clay would stick to each other. It did lead to the realisation that the shapes resembled tetras shapes and such determined the theme of the cupcake.
===Sketchup===
Though the first attempt at CAD for the cupcake was in openscad Joe quickly got frustrated with it and swapped to sketch up.

The model was made by making the primitive shapes from Tetris with a third dimension added to them.

The primitives where then duplicated and rotated to fit together in an aesthetically pleasing way. They needed to have a base of 60cmX60cm. The top was left jagged to give the appearance of a Tetris game being played.

To Trim the new completed cube down a cupcake model was generated with the inside dimensions of a cupcake cup along with a cube resting on top.

Preforming a Boolean intersection operation against each of the parts of the cube and the cupcake model gives the modified shapes we need to fit it into the cup.

A duplication of the trimmed model so that it can be laid flat to make the pattern for cutting out of the cake.

Another duplication was made but just of the visible side of the cupcake top. This would be the templates to cut the fondant.

===InkScape===
I would like to say that I just used the Sketchup plug ins to export an SVG of the cupcake layout for cutting into the cake. I would also like to say that I used an unfolding tool and turned the exposed areas of the cupcake top into flag laser cutable paths to cut the fondant but that was not the case. I was unable to get ether to works with plugins I used in the past. I am not sure why but the SVG export tool would not export any part of the cupcake. The unfolding tools I tried did unfold the faces but a key points would unfold them the wrong way.

I ended up turning to Inkscape to draw them by hand. As the blocks are mostly 2cm squares it was easy to draw them out in inkscape. Any place that the shape was cut by the cupcake cut I just modified the line path to match the 3d model.

The unfolded top was told drawn out in Inkscape by hand. I unfolded them in my head and tried to make the seams in favorable places. Again it was made up of fairly uniformed parts so a gird of 2mm helped draw it out fast.

===openscad===
After Joe swapped to Sketchup Aaron proclaimed that he could make it in Openscad just as fast as Joe could make it in Sketchup. A race was then started both of them trying to make the cube of Tetris peaces. In the end Joe barley beat Aaron in the construction of the cube. Aaron's code will be posted at a tribute of his mad scripting skills.

==Cooking==

===Cake===
The cake that was made for the cupcake was taken from this [http://cakecentral.com/recipe/durable-cake-for-3d-in-chocolate recipe]

The cake was moist and fluffy but held together nicely when cut. I only fear that it was to moist and that the cake will over saturate the fondant making it melt.

===Fondant===
Fondant was chosen for its durability and smooth apprentice. It is not the most pleasant tasting sugar topping but it was a trade of we decided to take.

It was worked till it was soft then food coloring was added to make the "office" colors of the Tetris shapes. after the food coloring was worked onto the fondant so it was not puddling on top it was ran through a pasta maker to mix it in the rest of the way. Letting it sit for 5 min let the colors come out better.

The fondant was then rolled out using a fondant roller. They are non stick to keep the fondant from pulling up and gives it the very smooth look.

A light engraving was then cut into the sheet of fondant with a laser cutter at 100% speed and 1% power. This is just to give a line to cut on. I was unable to get the fondant to cut fully with the laser cutter without giving it a very unpleasant burnt flavor.

The fondant was then cut long the lines and folded back into the 3d shape needed for the cupcake top.

A very thin layer of butter cream icing was used to coat the inside of the fondant. This is to hopefully make it taste better. Unfortunately I think the layer of butter cream was too thing to over power the flavor of the fondant. It is also hopped that this layer of butter cream will help protect the fondant from absorbing to much of the moisture in the cake.

==Packaging==
===Box===
The is normally very important to shipping the cupcakes. With the flat pack attempt of this cupcake just needed to be a formfitting shape. A plug in was used for Inkscape to make a [http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10403 tabbed box]. It was cut out of .08" (about 2.03mm) acrylic. The box then had a LVL1 logo rastered into one side and an image based on the interface for the NES Tetris game on the other side.

The thinness of the box was a problem when put into a vacuum seal bag as it was unable to hold up the the pressure. To keep it from collapsing small intersecting plains of acrylic where scattered about the box to keep it from smashing the cupcake.

===Other Steps===
====CO2====
There is an extrema amount of surface area on the cupcake greatly increasing the rate at witch it will go stale. To help decrease this dry ice was used to flood the package with CO2 before shipping. This risk dropping the temperature of the fondant too fast and causing condensation on it. To prevent the condensation the drive ice only gassed into the package for a short time.

====Vacuum Seal====
After the package was flooded with CO2 it was vacuum seated with a home vacuum sealing appliance. This may have rendered the process of adding CO2 moot but both was preformed as I did not know how much of a vacuum would be pulled. The vacuum sealing did become problematic as the box needed to be reinforced to not collapse under the strain. It had the added benefit of holding the box together. We did not want to glue the box for fear of contaminating the cupcake. The pressure applied by the vacuum sealed bad seems to be holding the walls of the box in place.

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T03:10:32Z

Joepugh: /* Fondant */

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T02:54:36Z

Joepugh: /* Cake */

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T02:49:17Z

Joepugh: /* openscad */

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T02:44:18Z

Joepugh: /* Concept */ Added Inkscape section.

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T02:33:47Z

Joepugh: /* Sketchup */

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T00:28:26Z

Joepugh: Clay model info added

Cupcake2012

2012-02-29T00:24:21Z

Joepugh: Added Concept information

Cupcake2012

2012-02-28T23:58:49Z

Joepugh: Added basic layout and added goals

02/28/2012

2012-02-28T23:43:15Z

Joepugh: Added ConGlomeration request

STREAMING:

* Streaming projector screen from meeting: [https://join.me/900-528-826]
* Streaming video/audio of meeting: [http://www.ustream.tv/channel/highball-1]

== Agenda ==
#You can find all of our Meeting Minutes at http://wiki.lvl1.org
#Please Sign in on the meeting attendance roster.
#Waivers of Liability - Please sign if you have not already
#Old Business
##Equipment Wanted
###Crucible and investment (> 3000 deg)
###propane and atmospheric air
###florescent light fixtures
###USB KVM switch
###2x2" and 3/8" lumber for shelving
##Open Invitations for LVL1 Contributions (for serious considerations, please put it in writing)
###Bernheim CONNECT August 2012 Projects / Planning
####Music sync light show in the trees?
###U of L Speed School Engineer Expo (3/3)
###Projects / Installations for Louisville Metro
###Science Fair needs Volunteers see mailing list (3/10)
#New Business
##Space Upgrades
###??
##Visit from Travis Good, writer for Make, last Saturday
###Touring hackerspaces for the past couple of months
###Very impressed with LVL1, working on article series
##LVL1 website hacked
###Careless Wordpress plugin left an open directory
###Exploit patched, files restored, passwords changed, nothing to see here, everything's fine. How are you?
##ConGlomeration would like to know if LVL1 would like run a panel this year
###See Joe P if you are interested. (4/13-4/15)
#Upcoming Workshops, Meetings and Events
##Fortnightly Monday Sound Builders (next 3/5).
##LVL1 Open Meeting & Making every Tuesday 8pm
##White Star Balloon Meeting (Thurs 8pm)
##Pow-Pow-Powerwheels Racing Series meeting (Thurs 9pm)
###First Race: June 23-24 Kansas City Makerfaire
##Maker Reality TV thing (Demo Tape due 2/29)
###Proper Television Inc. info on the Google Group
#Project Roll Call

File:Cupcake00.JPG

2012-02-28T12:49:23Z

Joepugh:

Cupcake2012

2012-02-20T18:11:56Z

Joepugh: Created page with "This page intentionally left blank."

This page intentionally left blank.

02/14/2012

2012-02-14T23:52:24Z

Joepugh: Added cupcakes to events list.

STREAMING:

* Streaming projector screen from meeting: [https://join.me/900-528-826]
* Streaming video/audio of meeting: [http://www.ustream.tv/channel/highball-1]

== Agenda ==
#You can find all of our Meeting Minutes at http://wiki.lvl1.org
#Please Sign in on the meeting attendance roster.
#Waivers of Liability - Please sign if you have not already
#Old Business
##Equipment Wanted
###Crucible and investment (> 3000 deg)
##Open Invitations for LVL1 Contributions (for serious considerations, please put it in writing)
###Bernheim CONNECT 2012 Projects / Planning
####Music sync light show in the trees?
###Louisville Science Center Engineers Week (2/23 - 2/25)
####Sumobots? Plasma Speaker? Rubens Tube? Talk to Andrew or Joseph
###U of L Speed School Engineer Expo (3/3)
###Projects / Installations for Louisville Metro
###Science Fair needs Volunteers see mailing list (3/10)
#New Business
##Space Upgrades
###Fixed / Fixing a list of code issues
###Cleaned up Big Room
#Upcoming Workshops, Meetings and Events
##Mother Meeting Every Monday 7PM
##Fortnightly on Monday Sound Builders.
##LVL1 Open Meeting & Making every Tuesday 8pm
##Metal Milling Demo (wednesday 2/15 7pm)
##U of L Co-Op Makership Deadline 2/15
###http://www.lvl1.org/coopmakership/
##Pow-Pow-Powerwheels Racing Series meeting (Thurs 9pm)
###First Race: June 23-24 Kansas City Makerfaire
##Cupcake 2012 hackathon (Saturday 2/18)(see Joe P)
##Metal Milling Demo (Saturday 2/18 1pm)
##Louisville Science Center Engineers Week (2/23 - 2/25)
##White Star Balloon Meeting (Thurs 8pm)
##Maker Reality TV thing (Demo Tape due 2/29)
###Proper Television Inc. info on the Google Group
#Project Roll Call

File:Wire.jpg

2011-06-17T09:03:34Z

Joepugh: Lower circuit board of pony wiring.

Lower circuit board of pony wiring.

Robo-Pony

2011-06-17T08:10:09Z

Joepugh: /* Sensors */ format

==Mapping==
===Moters===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Color
! Lable
! Part
! Bi-Derectional
! Voltage
|-
| Purple
| M3+
| Head Turn
| Yes
| 5V
|-
| Brown
| M3-
| Head Turn
| Yes
| Ground
|-
| Green
| M4+
| Tail
| No
| 5V
|-
| Yellow
| M4-
| Tail
| No
| Ground
|-
| Blue
| M5+
| Head nod
| no
| 5V
|-
| Purple
| M5-
| Head nod
| No
| Ground
|}

===Sensors===
Label= Wiper3 Connecter color= Black
{| class="wikitable"
! Pin
! Wire color
! Reads
! Notes
|-
| 1
| Blue
| Head Turn angle
| Common Ground
|-
| 2
| Gray
| Head Turned Left
| Switch is off when turned to the left
|-
| 3
| Gray
| Head Turned Right
| Switch is off when turned to the Right
|-
| 4
| Gray
| Head Middle
| Switches off when in the middle
over laps with left and right switch
|}

switches
Tail, Label=tailsw, two wire, Yellow Connecter, Closed? when tail in center down 
Butt switch, Label=Rider, Two wire, Green Connecter, open?when down 
Head Left and Right?, Label=Wiper 4, 4 wire, white connecter, One Blue + 3 Gray. 

Input 
MIC2(L) White 2 pin 
MIC1(R) Black 2 pin 
 
Output 
SPK2 Purple 

Don't know 
CS 3,4,1 (Capacitive sensor?) 
Gray = Front Left 
Blue = Back Left 
Red = Back Right 
 
CS 2,5 (cap) 
Yellow = Front Right 
Red = Front Center