Video at link.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
For some reason, this article made me think of you. :)
To: smokingfrog
3 posted on
07/09/2011 8:59:04 AM PDT by
NEWwoman
(God Bless America)
To: smokingfrog
Print my own chocolate?! In whatever shape I want?!
I. Want. One.
4 posted on
07/09/2011 9:07:42 AM PDT by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. *4192*)
To: smokingfrog
Awful waste of time to watch the video
Four minutes of self-congratulatory blather and puffery. Zero seconds of 3D printer in operation.
5 posted on
07/09/2011 9:10:38 AM PDT by
Strident
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To: smokingfrog
People will use this to make some perverse stuff. Mankind always finds ways to make inventions do something sinful.
7 posted on
07/09/2011 9:26:38 AM PDT by
lurk
To: smokingfrog
I want a picture of a chocolate bar imprinted on my chocolate bar.
8 posted on
07/09/2011 9:27:55 AM PDT by
digger48
To: smokingfrog
10 posted on
07/09/2011 9:36:41 AM PDT by
RetSignman
(It's Summertime...the "Goebbles Warmers" are back from hibernation.)
To: smokingfrog
Was this stolen from Willy Wonka’s factory?
11 posted on
07/09/2011 9:37:36 AM PDT by
Immerito
(Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
To: Monkey Face; Harmless Teddy Bear; Darksheare; NicknamedBob
13 posted on
07/09/2011 10:01:55 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
("This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!" ~ John Adams)
To: smokingfrog
While 3-D printing in chocolate may sound strange, the project did tackle some problems that have application elsewhere. The type of 3-D printer that squirts out some form of molten material, like an ink-jet printer, has been limited so far to a very small family of plastics. Learning how to solve problems of softening the material, placing it where needed without stringing, and getting it to harden, can widen the range of usable materials.
Other types of 3-D printing, involving ultraviolet hardening of liquid plastic, or binding of powder, have the limitation that they cannot make a hollow object. Any attempt to make a hollow object will result in the void being filled with the liquid or powder. The ink-jet type of 3-D printer can make hollow objects. All three types have their areas of application.
We still haven't reached the ability to make the infamous "hollow seamless steel sphere" that was the epitome of impossible manufacturing problems when I was an undergraduate.
18 posted on
07/09/2011 11:57:04 AM PDT by
JoeFromSidney
(New book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. A primer on armed revolt. Available form Amazon.)
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