3D Chocolate Printer Made from Legos? 165
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.'"
Woah (Score:3, Funny)
No Fair! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No Fair! (Score:5, Funny)
Complain about the coral link, apparently.
"In other news on Wall Street... (Score:5, Funny)
A sequence of events (Score:5, Funny)
"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.
Re:Not far off (Score:5, Funny)
They're so damned white, they'll blind our politicians stupid.
Not that we'd notice a difference.
Re:A sequence of events (Score:3, Funny)
[sign on a closed-down movie theatre that reads: Yahoo Serious Festival]
Lisa Simpson-"I recognize all three of those words but that statement doesn't make any sense."
Chocolate ... I'm in love (Score:2, Funny)
What's with all the food articles? (Score:3, Funny)
Shit. (Score:4, Funny)
Great excuse for school (Score:2, Funny)
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!
Re:Also interesting (Score:2, Funny)
Then you can cast metal in it...
Indeed, what but do you make your casting model with?
Aha!
KFG
Re:editors on drug? (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, you have yet to learn the proper application of chocolate.
KFG
Feeding time (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not 3D (Score:5, Funny)
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
The only important question is... (Score:4, Funny)
Gillette Business Model (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's Lego! (Score:4, Funny)
(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)
Re:"In other news on Wall Street... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:"In other news on Wall Street... (Score:4, Funny)
If the output bugs you.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"In other news on Wall Street... (Score:3, Funny)
The weekly chocolate ration will be increased to 20 units next week.