3D Chocolate Printer!

[cindybubbles]

Amazing, isn't it?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14030720

Mmmm... printed chocolate!

[dendawg]

I hate to imagine how much the "ink" cartridges would cost.

[DiRF]

I hate to imagine how much the "ink" cartridges would cost.

Can't be more expensive than Lexmark's color cartridges.

[TheSHAD0W]

3D printer: Nice.

3D chocolate printer: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

[fma_fanatic]

For those that want to see it in action:

http://youtu.be/iictiOdHhXc

http://youtu.be/MDEdGhE2dUk

[Draper Mel]

Wow. I predict many custom chocolate websites popping up in a few years.

[PepperElf]

i can think of quite a few ... novelty ... items that people would print up.

[Caffienated_Caramel]

This is so me right now. My love for chocolate.



Gimme one shaped like a Weeping Angel please. So I can destroooooooyyy iiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt, with my teeth, om nom nom nom.

I can see Retail Workhorse wanting bacon shaped chocolate :3

[fireheart]

i can think of quite a few ... novelty ... items that people would print up.

wouldn't they melt too quickly though?

Although I suppose if you were creative, you could make a chocolate dildo with a line of white chocolate cascading down one side....

(Yeah I'm weird at this hour...)

[telecom_goddess]

wouldn't they melt too quickly though?

Although I suppose if you were creative, you could make a chocolate dildo with a line of white chocolate cascading down one side....

(Yeah I'm weird at this hour...)

But think of the mess that would ma........... oh wait you could lick it up after

What I'm weird ALL damn day!

[dalesys]

wouldn't they melt too quickly though?

Use the Queensland / Phoenix formulation.

[cindybubbles]

What would be better than 3D printed chocolate would be deep-fried 3D printed chocolate! You print the chocolate, freeze it, smother it with batter after it solidifies and deep-fry the heck out of it!

Heck, 3D printed anything would taste better deep-fat-fried!

[wolfie]

Heck, 3D printed anything would taste better deep-fat-fried!

Even a 3D printed AR15 lower receiver? Yep, some people have published on-line the file to print one of those. For those who haven't read the stories, on an AR15 it's the lower receiver that's the part with the serial number, and which determines whether it's semiauto-only or selective fire. Legally, the lower receiver IS the gun, and everything else is just parts.

Of course, 3D printed plastic isn't as durable as die-cast aluminum (from what I've read, they usually break after the first couple magazines). I wonder how long it'll be before somebody scales it using a shrink rule, prints it in wax instead of plastic, then investment-casts it using the lost wax method.