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Food: Dessert
Rapid Protosnacking   (+13)  [vote for, against]
Combine rapid prototyping and chocolate for instant wins

Take a rapid prototyping machine, such as direct metal deposition or stereo lithography. Instead of building 3d objects one layer at a time with plastic or metal. Build 3d objects with chocolate, frosting and various candies.

I figure you would have the equivalent of a hot glue gun that melts chocolate and applies it one layer at a time, you could have hopper of different blends of chocolate or caramel to get some extra treats.

Now imagine a birthday cake with an edible chocolate version of you, or a chocolate figure of a childs favorite cartoon character. Once the capital cost of the machine is taken care of individual creations would be relatively cheap to make and done in minutess
-- metarinka, Oct 09 2010

Fused deposition modeling http://en.wikipedia...Deposition_Modeling
exact same process but with plastic [metarinka, Oct 09 2010]

Edible Photo Cake Frosting http://www.clm3d.co...ideas_site_map.html
Could be done layer by layer? [csea, Oct 09 2010]

Inkjet-Nutella Chocolate printing [xenzag, Oct 09 2010]

The_20Delicious_20S...ot_20of_20Liquorice another of my food printers.... I have more, but not posted here. [xenzag, Oct 09 2010]

candyfab.org http://www.candyfab.org/
3D sugar [pocmloc, Oct 09 2010]

This is what is technically known as A Very Good Idea.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 09 2010


How long has this technology been wasted on plastic?!?
-- Boomershine, Oct 09 2010


+ Reminds me of the 2D version which has been around for at least a decade. [link]
-- csea, Oct 09 2010


You could also use white chocolate then a manifold that delivers various amounts of food coloring to create a colored model.

You can basically do all this with off the shelf rapid prototyping hardware
-- metarinka, Oct 09 2010


Yeah, but who wants to do something basically?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 09 2010


Famous last words:

"I'd like to show you my prototype. I left it in the lunch room. It's made of 50 lbs of dark chocolate. "
-- popbottle, Sep 02 2013


So wait, this idea was posted in 2010 and I can't buy a chocolate 3d printer yet? Where's the Kickstarter?
-- DIYMatt, Sep 02 2013



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