We did use the big stack of 9V batteries on some of the gels, but we wound up using the power supply on this one for simplicity. Note our ice bath top left (made from the water jug we had cut up to make the gel platform), and the foot of Joseph's PVC pipe pipetter stand:
And here's the final results with our food dyes. Lovely bands, if I say so myself. Perhaps not research grade, but definitely food grade:
Since we were running short on time, we didn't get a chance to optimize our recipe for alcohol content and taste, so after showing off the gel to the judges, we wound up cutting it up and serving it in shot glasses with some flavored vodka - which definitely made the kinda grainy agar gel go down more easily.
We got a medal for "most reproducible" hack, which I guess means we'll probably wind up turning this into an instructable at some point. Many thanks to my science co-conspirators Joseph, Sarah, Yasa and Rolf for pulling this off in under 24 hours!
Patrik
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