SC13 Aggregate.Org/UK 20th Year Refrigerator Magnet

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Our 20th SC conference research exhibit at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2013 featured a variety of 3D-printed items, including these cute refrigerator magnets as giveaways. The magnet design commemorates our world's first Linux PC cluster supercomputer built in Feb. 1994 by symbolizing the cluster network with Tux, the Linux penguin, wearing classic "mind transfer" caps. We used Thing 118892 as the base model and tweaked it slightly for our exhibit. Printed using 0.25mm PLA extrusion at over 100mm/s, with 2 walls and 5%-10% fill on a MakerGear M2, these magnets feature the University of Kentucky and SC13 logos on the back. The magnets are inserted into self-stick magnetic tape placed in cavities in the penguins' backs after printing, secured with hot glue. For legibility, text on the base and chest was painted white on dark PLA models or colored with a permanent marker on white PLA models.