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World’s First 3D Chocolate Printer Presented By EPSRC
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| 9 July 2011
| Ankita
Posted on 07/09/2011 8:51:54 AM PDT by smokingfrog
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Video at link.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
For some reason, this article made me think of you. :)
To: smokingfrog
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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.
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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.
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posted on
07/09/2011 9:10:38 AM PDT
by
Strident
(< null >)
To: Strident
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posted on
07/09/2011 9:16:59 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
People will use this to make some perverse stuff. Mankind always finds ways to make inventions do something sinful.
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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.
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posted on
07/09/2011 9:27:55 AM PDT
by
digger48
To: lurk
People will use this to make some perverse stuff. Mankind always finds ways to make inventions do something sinful. I was just thinking that maybe former Representative Weiner could use it for a new job. He got in trouble for his tweets, so now he can do something with sweets.
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posted on
07/09/2011 9:33:00 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Tea Party extremism is a badge of honor.)
To: smokingfrog
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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?
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posted on
07/09/2011 9:37:36 AM PDT
by
Immerito
(Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
To: lurk
People will use this to make some perverse stuff. Mankind always finds ways to make inventions do something sinful.
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posted on
07/09/2011 9:41:04 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Monkey Face; Harmless Teddy Bear; Darksheare; NicknamedBob
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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: Tax-chick; Monkey Face; Darksheare; NicknamedBob
Oh heck YEAH!
One for every habitat at least with the goal being one per room, but I am patient. I can wait at least until Tuesday for the one in every room.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:48:50 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(I have no time to worry about turbot, a parrot is eating my house)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
We can have 3D chocolate-printing contests ... who can make the most realistic aardvark and so on.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:51:35 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!" ~ John Adams)
To: RetSignman
I’ve seen that before. That’s a true 3-D printer.
The chocolate “printer” in the video does make 3-D objects, but is extremely crude by comparison. I wouldn’t even call it a printer, really.
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posted on
07/09/2011 11:26:12 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: RetSignman
Will this put Home Depot out of business in a few years (decade or so)? Assuming everyone has one of these in their house—and you just buy the “program” for a piece of something you need to fix? Like a parts for a toilet? Replacement facet...oil pump for your car?
Where can I buy the stock!
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posted on
07/09/2011 11:32:13 AM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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.
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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.)
To: Tax-chick; Harmless Teddy Bear; Dead Corpse
Ohyah!!!
How cool is that? Let’s just go whomp one up in the Forges!
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posted on
07/09/2011 12:21:31 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Nothing is so bad that a good skirl on the Pipes can't cure! Long live sionnsar!)
To: Tax-chick
I like the little Chinese guy: We can use this tek-o-lol-o-gy....
That was cool, too!
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posted on
07/09/2011 12:27:20 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Nothing is so bad that a good skirl on the Pipes can't cure! Long live sionnsar!)
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