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3D Chocolate Printer Made from Legos?
enrico_suave writes "Whoot.org (linked via Coral P2P Cache because the poor guy is hosting on a ADSL line) has cool design pics, a now removed video clip, and some interesting details of the process. From one of the plog entries: 'We've developed a print head that will print 5mm 'pixels' of the consumable. It basically acts as a pump. It's a medium sized lego gear (driven by a worm gear attached to the motor) with four axles that repeatedly squeeze and release a pipe attached to a funnel that holds the consumables. a half-rotation of this wheel yields a blob.'"
Wow... Very cool. Awesome. Man, I thought I was cool when I made a merry-go-round. sheesh, shows offs...
They included the coral link in the story. Now what are karma whores suppose to do?
...the price of chocolate has suddenly skyrocketed to $100 a pound due to its newfound usage as printer ink. Lexmark has patented the new chocolate-printing technology, and their lawyers plan to sue Nestlé for patent infringement for selling chocolate that works on its system under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
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This is what went through my mind during the split second as I read the title.
"3D Chocolate Printer"
What the crap? Somebody made 3D printer out of chocolate?
"3D Chocolate Printer Made from Legos?"
Made from legos? What? This person made it out of chocolate legos? Insanity. That is so awesome.
And then a second later I realized what it actually meant and while it's pretty cool, it just couldn't live up to my above first impressions. That said, I'm going to go see about making some chocolate legos.
Actually, lately, I've been considering exercising a different freedom: The right to bare arms.
They're so damned white, they'll blind our politicians stupid.
Not that we'd notice a difference.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
I never thought it would come to this but I just fell in love with a printer. :-P
in my life God comes first.... but Linux is pretty high after that
Francis Smit
I guess _someone_ at Slashdot is pretty hungry...
Just when you think you've gotten used to the zany Slashdot titles, you get '3d Chocolate Printer Made From Legos'. We're officially on another dimension now.
Teacher
Kid: The dog ate it.
Teacher: What have I told you about missing homeworks? Im sick of your excuses.
Kid: Its true this time. Honest. I printed it out with chocolate ink.
Teacher: *Slap* Thats enough. Principals office now!
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I'm more intested in putting down plaster myself.
Then you can cast metal in it...
Indeed, what but do you make your casting model with?
Aha!
KFG
yeah, it can squeeze chocolate, but it's not like we have girlfriends anyway.
Ah, you have yet to learn the proper application of chocolate.
KFG
I gather from the recent two stories that the /. editors are hungry - whose turn is it to feed them?
Non, je ne veux pas coucher avec toi ce soir.
The 3D plastic printer we have at work (granted it's a cheep one)
Can you really say that about any 3d printer? It's like saying, "Yes I drive a Ferrari, but it's one of the cheap ones...." hehe
Punctanym: alternate spelling of words using punctuation or numerals in place of some or all of its letters; see 'leet'
... does the printer support proportional rendering of chocolate superscripts in Times New Roman?
Dahlmann tightly grips the knife, which he may have no idea how to use, and steps out into the plain.
Great... You just know that Hershey's is going to charge an arm and a leg for a refill cartridge!
(I can't believe someone had to say "stop spending all your time building sheep and get back to making a 3d printer" to them)
-- Sorry, I can't think of anything funny to say here.
This is the best way to be a frog...If the output bugs you, just eat it! Also, it beats a shredder for disposing of the output.