How to build a gingerbread computer Introduction Recipe, Ingredients and Accessories Graphic card CPU cooler RAM memory Mainboard Summary

21/12-05 | Henrik Olsson | milohenke@64bits.se

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Graphic card

The first component that we are going to bake is the graphics card. It's relatively easy; just take a lump of dough, place it on some baking paper and roll it until it is flat and a few millimetres thick and covering a surface of adequate proportions. After that, you place a previously completed model on the dough and cut out the motive. I used the hard cover of an A4 paper notebook for the model. Be careful, because the dough tends to stick to the model and is easily deformed. To avoid this, you can rub some flower onto the model to avoid that the dough becomes too sticky. A knife is then used when separating the dough from the model. It's initially one of the more difficult tasks and may result in a few unsuccessful attempts.

When this is done, you place it on the baking paper and leave it in the oven until it's brown and crispy. This should only take a minute or two.

The left photo shows the different components of the cooling unit. The heatsinks have already been glued to the bottom plate and the fan is made in advance. The fan consists of a round "Bassett" candy, with the green fins cut into slim pieces from a green candy. The right photo shows the cooling unit after it’s been assembled and glued onto the bottom gingerbread plate.

After we've done our gpu cooler it's time for the card itself. For this you need some more gingerbread dough and some assorted candy in the shape of liquorice rolls for the capacitors and square-shaped candy called bassetts. The gpu itself is made from a fudge. When the graphics card plate and the shim is baked, you simply place it as on the photo to the right.

When all the candy components have been glued into place, the cooler remains to be placed on the card. This is simply done by applying glue to the bottom of the cooler and then apply it onto the card. .. and voila! Our gingerbread graphics card is complete!

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21/12-05 | Henrik Olsson | milohenke@64bits.se

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