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Here at SparkFun Electronics, we pride ourselves on our geekdom. We think there is no shame in geeking out about stuff - whether it's tinkering with electronics, driving rock crawlers, or climbing mountains. To us, showing this type of passion in what we do not only makes projects more enjoyable, but continues to drive us to new heights. Just when we think we are at the pinnacle of geekdom, we get out-geeked yet again. Which brings us to today's post...
Check that out. Yep, that is an Arduino birthday cakes. We received pictures of this from one of our customers. His wife and kids know how much he loves electronics, so they fashioned (quite-well) a cake that is a replica of an Arduino Uno (SMD version) board.
In addition to the Arduino cake, they also made a breadboard cake! That's a whole lot of delicious cake! Great job and what a cool way to celebrate a birthday. Hope you saved some cake for the rest of us...
Is it RoHS compliant?
Aww Man, only smd edition?
should have made the Atmel chip little cupcakes:)
Hmm... along with my suggestion of sparking rocks (SparkyFunRocks) I have another idea... ATMega328 SPRINKLES (Like on ice cream!)!!!
Mmmmmm. Delicious non-compliant lead solder icing.
That other icing grows those annoying icing whiskers. (ok, that joke was a bit more obscure...pure tin solder can do this )
Also, what's with the TX/RX LEDs? There's no clear on the top of them...
Alan, you are a very lucky man to not only have a supporting wife and family for your geekdom, but who embrace it to this level as well!! Hang on VERY tight to them! Happy birthday!
Good post Davidjh! Everybody comments about the cake, but almost nobody whishes him a happy birthday.
Happy birthday Alan!
Are there plans for a wedding/anniversary shield?
someone pointed me to the open hardware arduino-cake 3D printer shield but does anyone have a link to the libraries?
The Cake is not a lie.
I love it! Finally! Will there be a retail (boxed) version of this for sale?
Sorry, but we don't allow cake boxes at SparkFun.
Just make square muffins instead
(inside joke)
(I probably wouldn't get it anyway)
Hmm I think I have a task for the local bakery around here.
Thanks for posting that on my birthday! Makes me want to rig up a microphone & LoL shield for blowing out virtual candles!
Awesome... Major kudos for having a breadboard too.
Reminds me of the cake my daughter made for Father's Day last year:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38987262@N02/5860613828/
Awesome... I wish my sister would do that kind of stuff for me.
Was the cake really made in italy? looks quite tasty too :)
The edge finishing is accurate, sadly. Also, their headers look straighter than mine.
How about mass-produced "Fun Size"es that are actually the same size as the Uno? That would be awesome. You could even sell them through ThinkGeek (they have a whole category for Wacky Edibles and even a sub-category for BACON!!!)
very cool project!!
hehee home made arduino cake very funny but we need to shiled for this cake :)
Somebody has way too much time on their hands! Cute though.
Good ideas never get old
super awesome!
There's a lot o' love expressed in that cake!
All it needs is some licorice connecting the Arduino to the breadboard!
(This was for my birthday)
Actually, I came home as my daughter was trying to stretch the licorice for jumper wires. But the licorice just wasn't quite long enough.
I kidded with my wife that without the current limiting resistor she was going to burn up the LED. Then as we were going to bed she was thinking about what kind of candy she could use that would look like a resistor. :-)
Salt water taffy could make a convincing resistor
I think a Circus Peanut would be perfect for a resistor. Just paint some color code bars on there with frosting to set the value.
And happy birthday to you sir!
She wouldn't necessarily burn the LED, if she would connect the LED to pin 13, it would work very very long without burning something.
I always wondered how the Arduino team did pin layout.
(Now I know).
That is AMAZING!! Wow. Huge kudos to whomever made these. I figure just about everything there is made of icing, but what's the LED sticking out of the breadboard made of?
Actually, a lot of the components were made out of chocolate candies and marshmallows. My wife found an edible silver spray paint that she used to get marshmallows and other pieces the right color. Everything except the LED legs (toothpicks) was edible.
It looks like it is made from a yellow gumdrop.
That is correct. (The cake was for my birthday.)
More Cakes!!!!!
It would taste horrible(Lots 0' Salt) but they could make it out of squishy circuits and have the LED actually light up.
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/index.htm
Hey today is my birthday too! What an awesome present!
uuuuuu I want one of those! :D looks reaaaally good!!!
Ooooo... I just had an idea: I'm gonna be ordering an EXTREMELY customized ice cream cake from Emack and Bolio's next year for my birthday... although my half-bday was only a few days ago. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............