Worlds coolest birthday cake - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 03:34:35 am
content: No need for words:Dave.

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 03:47:51 am
content: That's a pretty good attention to detail. Candles plug into the banana sockets, presume?

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 04:35:31 am
content: It must be in power save mode... It's set to diode test yet the display is blank...

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 04:41:27 am
content: Wow, Your birthday already Dave?Very nice cake there, of course it is in powersave mode, it has been on for a hour or two in the oven.

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 05:14:04 am
content: Quote from: SeanB on June 18, 2012, 04:41:27 am

author: Mint.
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 05:45:04 am
content: Hahaha! Thats awesome!

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 06:46:59 am
content: The cake is too small, and I don't like fondant. :-)

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 06:53:12 am
content: danger! dont show this to your kid and let them into your lab! anyway congrats, is it 1 year already? since the sagan project started? (or 2 years? (1 year and 9 months)... saganian tribe novelty brithday cake!

author: digsys
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 07:10:40 am
content: You know what that means !!We're going to expect a uCurrent cake project SOON !! And don't skimp on the interface.

author: dcel
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 11:49:26 am
content: Happy Birthday Dave!Cool cake!Chris

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 12:17:34 pm
content: Quote from: westfw on June 18, 2012, 06:46:59 amWe knew you didn't like fondant, so the cake is exactly the right size....

author: Architect_1077
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 01:49:20 pm
content: Happy B-Day Dave, and yeah, that's a cool cake

author: Hypernova
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 02:43:26 pm
content: For once the cake was not a lie!

author: Kilroy
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 05:12:32 pm
content: Wow...when a missus goes to that much effort just to make her fella's birthday uber special I'd say she was well worth hanging on to. Impressive.Did you eventually "take it apaaat!"

author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 08:10:39 pm
content: dont turn it on........eat it

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 09:43:19 pm
content: Quote from: Sionyn on June 18, 2012, 08:10:39 pmgetting turned on while taking it apart to eat it ... (i hope there's no sick twistel little minds here.)taking it apart : carving it up in slices so you can eat a slice. and while you are carving it up your are turned on in anticipation. ( what were you thinking ?)

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 18, 2012, 11:42:15 pm
content: I got this a while ago - buttons and flashing lights - played a tune and lit up EL wire!

author: digsys
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 19, 2012, 12:30:04 am
content: QuoteDid you get a schematic with that??? I don't like the look of the tinned copper wire wrappedaround the circuit !!??? Someone sure likes ya :-) Awesome job.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 19, 2012, 01:05:54 am
content: I had this one last year...It' s a 15kiloohm resistor... I had 15000 posts on an electronics forum ...

author: Raff
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 19, 2012, 02:00:52 am
content: Wow there are some cool cakes there! Nerd porn for sure.

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 19, 2012, 04:28:05 am
content: Cake decorating is a nerd-field of its own, and there are many fine pictures of many incredible cakes out there on the internet. Not to mentionhttp://cakewrecks.comIf that was an actual birthday cake you made or had made for Sagan's (or your) birthday, it moves up a whole bunch of notches in awesomeness compared to just some found picture!

author: PeteInTexas
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 19, 2012, 04:50:12 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on June 18, 2012, 03:34:35 amOh man, can't wait to see the drop-test!

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 19, 2012, 07:10:14 am
content: Quote from: free_electron on June 19, 2012, 01:05:54 amThere's no tolerance code. How do we know it wasn't just 350 posts

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 19, 2012, 08:47:15 am
content: Pretty sure white tolerance means 20%

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 19, 2012, 09:50:46 am
content: Quote from: Psi on June 19, 2012, 08:47:15 am20% = no color!

author: eevblogfan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 19, 2012, 10:52:30 am
content: Happy Birth day Dave !WoW . quiet close to my B day date