Maker Chip Challenge! End-of-summer contest!

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What’s a Maker Chip?

A Maker Chip is a collectable, tradeable item that shows off your Maker skills. It’s the size and shape of a regulation poker chip (40mm diameter, 3mm thick or about 1 9/16” and ⅛”). Maker Chips were popularized in the 3D Printing community, where it’s relatively easy to make a lot of them to hand out at events like business cards, but one-of-a-kind chips are cool too!

What’s the challenge?

Design and make one or more Maker Chips at Asmbly over the month of August. You can use any tools or shops you’d like. There are several categories that we’ll give out prizes for:

  1. Best Maker Chip from each shop - Use the tools from one of the 7 Asmbly shops (Ceramics, Electronics, Lasers, Metal Shop, Textiles, 3D Printing, Woodshop)

    Prize: 1 month of basic membership

  2. Best Multi-Shop Maker Chip - Use tools from more than one shop, with a bonus for how many you can incorporate. Can you make a 7 shop Chip?

    Prize: $100 in Asmbly Class Credit

  3. Best Set of Maker Chips - Make a Chip in each of several shops, with a bonus for how many shops you can incorporate. Can you make a Chip in each of the 7 shops?

    Prize: $100 in Asmbly Class Credit

  4. Best Overall Maker Chip - Any space(s), any techniques, go wild!

    Prize: $100 in Asmbly Class Credit

  5. Best Display Stand - A fancy way to show off your collection! Remember: chips may be double-sided!

    Prize: 1 month of basic membership

Contest entries become property of Asmbly so we can make a display of all of them to show off all of the creativity and ingenuity of our members!

I have questions…

How do I enter?
Fill out this form and drop off your chips in the drop box in the MPR. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CHIPS ARE CLEARLY LABELED AS YOURS! Entries must be received by midnight Austin time on August 31.

40mm diameter, 3mm thick is pretty specific. Will I be disqualified for being a little too big or too small?
Nah, but try to keep it close. One of the benefits of this format is that you can make standard display stands and organizers. If you’re designing an organizer, keep in mind that you might want to leave a little extra space.

Can I make more than one of my design?
Yes! Bring a bunch to give out! But you only get to enter each design once.

Can I enter more than once?
Each member can submit one single-chip entry, one set entry of up to 7 chips, and one display stand entry. Set entries should indicate which shop is being represented by each chip. Chips that are included in set entries are eligible to win Best in Shop and Best Overall.

I entered a set representing three shops, but I figured out how to make chips in two more shops. Can I submit again?
Yes, we’ll only consider your most recent submission.

Can I make a stand or display that makes my chip even cooler? Like what if my Chip is a gear, and the stand has other gears that mesh with it, or my Chip lights up when it’s placed in my stand, or…
Sounds awesome!

Can I team up with others?
Yes, but each member can only enter once for each category, whether individually or on a team.

Who will choose the winners?
Members will vote on their favorites.

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Thanks to @Kenneth, we’ve ordered some protoboards for folks who’d like to make a chip in the Electronics shop. There’s a bit of a lead time for them, so start your design on a breadboard until the protoboards are ready. Please let us know early if you’re interested in one of these, we might need to order more if there’s a lot of demand.

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This is so cool and brilliant idea getting the protoboards in the right size for Electronics entries! :clapping: :electronics: I can’t wait to see what people make for this!

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As a nice little bonus, these boards are lead free and 0.6mm thick instead of the usual 1.6mm thickness. Standard 2.54mm/0.1" pitch with a maximum row length of 15 pins.

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Remember that our clays shrink 12% :wink:

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12% is substantial! I’ve 3D printed a cookie cutter. Can someone with more ceramics skill help me sanity check it? If it’s the right size, I’ll resin print some and put them in the ceramics space.

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~12% is very substantial! You should see how crazy things look when you have a more substantial z height too.

It’s a ~30% reduction in volume of a cube- 10x10x10 =1,000 9x9x9=729

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Update!

Some folks have expressed that their grand plans for this contest can’t be accomplished in a mere month, so we’ll be extending the contest to go two months!

You have until 9/30 to craft your chips!

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@NickE re: 10x10x10 = 1,000, given 12% reduction, then 100% - 12% = 88%, therefore the cube would be: 8.8x8.8x8.8 = 681.472.

For a 40 mm diameter final the ceramic one should be 40 * 1.12 = 44.8 mm. I printed one on my 3D printer and it doesn’t look like the one you had in your photo. My expansion edge is much thinner than yours. What am I doing wrong?

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Shouldn’t your calculation have been 40 / 0.88 =45.455?

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This is correct. It’s Desired Final Size / (100% - SR%) = Initial Size

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Thanks for the correction.

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