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Photograph courtesy of Heidi Kumao and Michael Flynn

HOMEBREW

Our 6,000-volt Wedding Cake

By Heidi Kumao and Michael Flynn

Our rotating, sparking, 6,000-volt

wedding cake was the highlight of our wedding ceremony, because our collaboration on this project represented the way we approach our life together.

Our design began with gear-shaped cakes, symbolizing the way our lives have meshed. We agreed that the cakes should actually rotate, so we mounted plywood gears on large lazy Susan bearings, with one of the gears driven by a 10 rpm electric motor. ...

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