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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.'"

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  1. Even More Pictures of The Printer by twoshortplanks · · Score: 1, Troll

    Here's a couple of more recent pictures that I found on my digital camera. You can see the whole printer (with chocolate) printing in these shots.

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