Solar Cooking Exhibition
Toxic BBQ encourages attendees to bring hacker-made solar and alternative fuel cookers
The Humans of Vegas invite wily hackers to impress us with their engineering talent. Join us under nature's heat lamp to cook, heat, and sizzle delectable delights. You choose the food, the fuel, and the extent you want to go to impress strangers. Turn the Vegas sun into your ally for once. Take the cake with your Pentium Peltier Platten. Power your creations by sun, fresnel lens, heat-sink, capacitor, arcing current, cigarette lighters, and other less-than-standard means. Be safe; consider safety if using open flames; don't burn down DEF CON.
Demonstrate your creation at Toxic BBQ on Thursday afternoon and build a community of weirdos just like you. You might get swag. You might get ETERNAL GLORY. Reach out to us on Twitter or the Forums for questions and clarification.
Exhibition Tips:
- Exhibition will take place at Toxic BBQ, Sunset Park, Pavilion F on the Thursday of DEF CON
- Cook or Reheat food using a device built with your own hands. Working machines will be given extra consideration. Concept and partially completed machines also welcome.
- Ideally, devices should cook without commercial heat sources (e.g.: applying stickers to a hot plate doesn't count as modification, though we will admire your stickers and tell you "good job").
- There is no reliable electricity on-site.
- For your safety and our liability, please do not eat the exhibits unless you’re absolutely sure of its safety. Probe and IR Thermometers will be available to test temperature. Also consider the safety of non-standard cooking surfaces and fuels before consuming the exhibits.
- No prizes are guaranteed, but all participants will receive something fun. This could be a pin. It could be the “Best in Show” wreath we stole from American Pharoah. Only one way to find out!
