Sometimes it is all about doing fun stuff: to carry and store the tinyK20 (NXP/Freescale Kinetis K20) boards needed for next course, I wanted to build something geeky: a MUFG capsule to store and duplicate Kinetis boards 🙂

If you are not familiar with the MUFG Capsule: this is a special and very rare container in Ingress: you can store and carry items in this capsule, and over time the capsule will create some interest. The name ‘MUFG’ stands for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, a bank in Japan. So as with real (??) money on a bank account, items in that container duplicate with with an interest rate :-).

So why not creating a real MUFG capsule and see if I can duplicate NXP Kinetis boards in it? ;-). I have used a model available on Thingiverse.

In the 3D model the hinges are separate from the lid and the capsule:

Printing was with 100 microns, 20% infill and zero support structures:

Here with the finished lid:

Detail of the MUFG writing on the lid:

Glueing bottom parts:

MUFG lid painted with acrylic white color:

For the side stripes I have glued iridescent foil on foto paper:

Cut into stripes and glued on the side of the capsule:

Here the finished capsule which has space for up to 40 boards:

Now lets close the capsule, wait some time and check if items in it have duplicated 🙂

Happy Duplicating 🙂

Update: after 3 days, I opened up the capsule and counted the boards in it. Now I have one board more (41) 🙂 I’m not sure if I counted them wrong when I have put them into the capsule, who knows? 🙂