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Brimstone, Cherry, Crashcart, Alii, GTPyro, Jimshoe and just Tuttle bring you episode 007. Recorded January 22nd, 2011. Brimstone talks about snow, 27c3, Berlin Sides, and recording with Signal. Alii and Jimshoe talk about our cupcake and Santa Barbara’s cupcake. There’s Minecraft affecting the real world, explosioning gloves, iPhone GPIO, the largest Arduino shield and more in this episode. Show notes are on our wiki. Explosions curiosity of soundbible.com.

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Jimshoe, Cherry, Alii, Kix and Crashcart wrap up 2010. Recorded December 29th, 2010. They cover a variety of projects and events from photobooths to balloons in space to improvements around the shop. They discuss visits our members made to other places as well as other hackerspace members visiting us. They talk about 8-bit gaming, eating pig and more. More detailed notes are available on our wiki.

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Pig Roast March 5 2011

Makers Local is hosting a Tech Expo with accompanying Mardi Gras Pig Roast on Saturday, March 5th.  Members will be showing recent projects and demonstrating the technologies they use, as well as giving tours of the shop.  Some of the demonstrations include 3d printing, robotics, vacuum molding, rocketry, microcontrollers and more.  Mardi Gras treats will be delivered by the Makers new Candy Cannon!

The Tech Expo begins at 12, food will be served at the same time. Plates are $10, or two for $15.

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Episode number five of our Hackerspace Digest podcast coming at ya!
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One of the challenges of the cupcake was that it had to be done over the Synchronized Hackathon, what usually starts Friday night.   This however doesn’t mean you have to wait until then to start thinking about the cupcake.  Though for us, this is exactly what happen.  I casually asked Alice how much she would charge me to cook some cupcakes.  She then got excited and spend the rest of the evening baking and all day Saturday making the cupcake.

Our cupcake wasn’t a standard cupcake.  The idea was mentioned to put a cupcake inside a cupcake. Which in itself is awesome, but not as awesome as a cupcake inside a cupcake inside a cupcake.

To pull off something so awesome we needed to make one big cupcake.  To do this we bought some disposable circular roasting pans, and individual pie pans.  Alice then shaped them into a more cupcake looking pan.

In the end we had two giant cupcakes, a few smaller ones, and a few even smaller ones.  Alice stayed up all night Friday finishing the baking.

Saturday the construction began.  Alice magically turned one giant cake looking thing into a cupcake with two cupcakes inside it.  She also took time out to run to the store where she was able to talk to a baker and get some Italian Buttercream frosting.  This frosting is apparently special and cost her a bit, but was worth it.

So after many long hours of baking and construction here is what the cupcake should look like inside.

And here is the final cupcake.

Here it is boxed up and ready to go.  The cupcake is frosted to the bottom of the pan.  Then four pieces of cardboard are around the outside of the cupcake.  We then ran bamboo skewers through the cardboard, pan and cupcake.  This was to hold the cupcake down if it got tipped upside down.  Also we added bread to suck up the moisture and keep the cupcake fresh.

Here are more pictures if you would like to see them.

UPDATE: So it looks like someone can’t send a package through the mail.  This morning I went down to the post office and found our cupcake had been sent back.  🙁  As sad as I was about it, I was kind of excited to see how the cupcake looked after a week and a half in the mail.  This evening Alice and I opened it.  Here are the results.