Using a Kopykake Projector The Sweet Adventures of Sugar Belle. Do you know what this is This here is a Kopykake projector. You may or may not have have already heard of Kopykake projectors and might even be lucky enough to own one. But, if you havent, listen up. Intro Regular Font' title='Intro Regular Font' />This is important stuff. When I first got into the cookie thing, Id never heard of a Kopykake. As a matter of fact, I cookied for almost a year before I got wise. It took another six months and a bad night with Princess Tiana before I finally decided to buy one. I was really nervous about spending a ton of money on a cookie machine, so I hesitantly bought the cheapest one available at the time. A couple of years later I can honestly say its one of the best cookie investments Ive ever made. Kopykakes arent miracle machines and there is a little bit of a learning curve, but they really are an invaluable decorating tool. As I mentioned, the KR 1. I went that route. However, if I had it to do over I would go with the 3. XK model, like the one below. This one actually belongs to my buddy Lisa, The Barefoot Baker. I had the opportunity to try it while visiting her last year, and I like it a little more than the model I have. Intro Regular Font' title='Intro Regular Font' />
If you want to go all out, you could definitely get the K1. However, since its about double the cost of the others, unless you find a great deal, Im not quite sure its worth the extra dough. Now for the fun stuff. This is what the inside of a Kopykake looks like. There are clamps to hold the image, a bulb it came with a 3. I use a 2. 00 now and it works just fine, and a mirror to project. The neat thing about this model is that you can place books over the open projector door to project images without tearing them out. To use a Kopycake, you must first prepare the image you want to use. It can be clip art, words written in a specific font, or even a pattern. The key that the image is as clear as possible so it projects well. If youre using an image, you can often simplify it with photo to pencil sketch web apps like this one. I learned this trick from One Tough Cookie, Gail, the queen of practical cookie decorating tips. Before printing, try to get the image as close to actual size as possible. You can then use the lens for any final adjustments that might be needed. I dont have a reduction lens I dont think theyre really necessary, so I do most of the work before I print. There are about a gazillion and one ways to do this, which we will talk about later. Until then use the method works best for you. Once the image is ready, open the cover and clamp the image inside. It needs to be placed upside down so that it will project right side up. Close the cover and turn on the machine. You should see the image projected on the surface below. Taxonomy building might not be the first thing that aspiring UX designers think about when launching their careers, but maybe it should be After all, a well. Fifteen out of 48 chapters of Brent Welchs book. Do you know what this is This here is a Kopykake projector. You may or may not have have already heard of Kopykake projectors and might even be lucky enough to own. Place a cookie on the work surface and move the lens up and down until the image is properly positioned. Finally, pipe the image. I use different consistencies and tips depending on the look I want. It may take a little practice before you learn how to do this without your hand or shadows getting in the way, but dont give up. It gets easier, I promise. Remember, you can project almost anything if its clear. Ive done words, characters, and patterns. I have heard people say that using a Kopykake is cheating but this is simply not true. Just like any tool, it takes a fair amount of skill and planning to use it to its full potential. There is always more to learn. There are several informative Kopykake articles floating around in Internetland. Here are a couple of my favorites Although I love my Kopykake, I dont recommend them for everyone. They are bulky and expensive, so if you arent making lots of cookies, they arent really practical. If you look closely at the photo of my Kopykake, you can actually see a dusty hand print on the lid. Thats because before this post it was sitting in my storage room gathering dust. These days, its almost not worth the trouble of dragging it out for a few cookies. If a Kopycake isnt for you, there are other ways to transfer images to cookies. Here are a few of my favorite tips If youre still trying to decide whether or not to buy a Kopykake you can read my take on the pros and cons by clicking HERE. Theres also the option of an edible image printer, which Bridget explains HERE. If youre in the market for a Kopykake of your own, you may want to check out Jerrys Artarama. Not only are the prices low, they frequently offer coupons and free shipping promotions. Right now, if you use the 1. XK model for about 1. Thats a DEAL This is a ton of information, so Ill let you chew on it awhile, but stay tuned, because I have a few Kopykake tricks that I cannot wait to share. Have a great week, everyoneBasic HTML Advanced HTML. Adding a touch of style. Dave Raggett, 8th April 2002. This is a short guide to styling your Web pages. It will show you how to use W3Cs. Introduction. This is a book about getting computers to do what you want them to do. Computers are about as common as screwdrivers today, but they contain a lot more. Introduction top. Intro Specs Performance Compared Usage Recommendations. The Nikon D3100 is a very competent and ultralightweight DSLR. Manipulating files. Using shell features. In the example on moving files we already saw how the shell can manipulate multiple files at once. In that example, the shell finds out automatically what the user means by the requirements between the square braces and. The shell can substitute ranges of numbers and upper or lower case characters alike. It also substitutes as many characters as you want with an asterisk, and only one character with a question mark. Fn Browning 1900 Serial Numbers. All sorts of substitutions can be used simultaneously the shell is very logical about it. The Bash shell, for instance, has no problem with expressions like ls dirname2 3. In other shells, the asterisk is commonly used to minimize the efforts of typing people would enter cd dirinstead of cd directory. In Bash however, this is not necessary because the GNU shell has a feature called file name completion. It means that you can type the first few characters of a command anywhere or a file in the current directory and if no confusion is possible, the shell will find out what you mean. For example in a directory containing many files, you can check if there are any files beginning with the letter A just by typing ls A and pressing the Tab key twice, rather than pressing Enter. If there is only one file starting with A, this file will be shown as the argument to ls or any shell command, for that matter immediately. Which. A very simple way of looking up files is using the which command, to look in the directories listed in the users search path for the required file. Of course, since the search path contains only paths to directories containing executable programs, which doesnt work for ordinary files. The which command is useful when troubleshooting Command not Found problems. In the example below, user tina cant use the acroread program, while her colleague has no troubles whatsoever on the same system. The problem is similar to the PATH problem in the previous part Tinas colleague tells her that he can see the required program in optacroreadbin, but this directory is not in her path tina which acroread. X1. 1. The problem can be solved by giving the full path to the command to run, or by re exporting the content of the PATH variable tina export PATHPATH optacroreadbintina echo PATH. X1. 1 optacroreadbin. Using the which command also checks to see if a command is an alias for another command gerrit which a ls. F colorauto. If this does not work on your system, use the alias command tillewww mailalias ls. Find and locate. These are the real tools, used when searching other paths beside those listed in the search path. The find tool, known from UNIX, is very powerful, which may be the cause of a somewhat more difficult syntax. GNU find, however, deals with the syntax problems. This command not only allows you to search file names, it can also accept file size, date of last change and other file properties as criteria for a search. The most common use is for finding file names find lt path namelt searchstring This can be interpreted as Look in all files and subdirectories contained in a given path, and print the names of the files containing the search string in their name not in their content. Another application of find is for searching files of a certain size, as in the example below, where user peter wants to find all files in the current directory or one of its subdirectories, that are bigger than 5 MB peter find. If you dig in the man pages, you will see that find can also perform operations on the found files. A common example is removing files. It is best to first test without the exec option that the correct files are selected, after that the command can be rerun to delete the selected files. Below, we search for files ending in. Optimize This command will call on rm as many times as a file answering the requirements is found. In the worst case, this might be thousands or millions of times. This is quite a load on your system. A more realistic way of working would be the use of a pipe and the xargs tool with rm as an argument. This way, the rm command is only called when the command line is full, instead of for every file. See Chapter 5 for more on using IO redirection to ease everyday tasks. Later on in 1. 99. This program is easier to use, but more restricted than find, since its output is based on a file index database that is updated only once every day. On the other hand, a search in the locate database uses less resources than find and therefore shows the results nearly instantly. Most Linux distributions use slocate these days, security enhanced locate, the modern version of locate that prevents users from getting output they have no right to read. The files in roots home directory are such an example, these are not normally accessible to the public. A user who wants to find someone who knows about the C shell may issue the command locate. C shell. Supposing the users root and jenny are running C shell, then only the file homejenny. On most systems, locate is a symbolic link to the slocate program billy ls l usrbinlocate. Oct 2. 8 1. 4 1. User tina could have used locate to find the application she wanted tina locate acroread. Acrobat. 4Readerintellinuxbinacroread. Acrobat. 4binacroread. Directories that dont contain the name bin cant contain the program they dont contain executable files. There are three possibilities left. The file in usrlocalbin is the one tina would have wanted it is a link to the shell script that starts the actual program tina file usrlocalbinacroread. Acrobat. 4binacroread. Acrobat. 4binacroread. Acrobat. 4binacroread Bourne shell script text executable. Acrobat. 4Readerintellinuxbinacroread. Acrobat. 4Readerintellinuxbinacroread ELF 3. LSB. executable, Intel 8. In order to keep the path as short as possible, so the system doesnt have to search too long every time a user wants to execute a command, we add usrlocalbin to the path and not the other directories, which only contain the binary files of one specific program, while usrlocalbin contains other useful programs as well. Again, a description of the full features of find and locate can be found in the Info pages. The grep command. General line filtering. A simple but powerful program, grep is used for filtering input lines and returning certain patterns to the output. There are literally thousands of applications for the grep program. In the example below, jerry uses grep to see how he did the thing with find jerry grep a find. Search history Also useful in these cases is the search function in bash, activated by pressing CtrlR at once, such as in the example where we want to check how we did that last find again thomas R. Type your search string at the search prompt. The more characters you type, the more restricted the search gets. This reads the command history for this shell session which is written to. The most recent occurrence of your search string is shown. If you want to see previous commands containing the same string, type CtrlR again. See the Info pages on bash for more. All UNIXes with just a little bit of decency have an online dictionary. So does Linux. The dictionary is a list of known words in a file named words, located in usrsharedict.