Wow... somebody actually pwned the 3d printer...

[lugaru]

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab

Saw it in wired this morning, had to dig up a link to share with my fellow world dominating villains.

"You dare attack magneto, in a suit of armor?"

"Jokes on you, my armor is made of CARAMELIUM!".


Edit: And for teh clix players in the forum... "crunch crunch cruch.... what? you where expecting a rematch?"

[ThePrelate]

that's actually very cool

[Glitch Girl]

Sugar sculpture from the computer... wow.  That's sweet.

[Protomorph]

There can be but one reply...



SHASAM!!!

[Uncle Yuan]

So how does it taste?

Like praline, no doubt.

While our process has incredible potential for making interesting food, we are still in the early stages of prototyping and we have not yet worked with the sugar under conditions that could be construed as proper food handling procedures. We are instead at this point treating the sugar as a relatively safe (but not edible) industrial chemical and prototyping medium. There is no fundamental obstacle to food-safe 3D fabrication-- however we still need to carefully audit the system and make sure, for example, that the air pump for the hot air does not contain any substances that could contaminate food.

The sheer genius here is using sugar.  If these guys have half a brain they will immediately patent this concept, as using this technology to make edibles is a huge commercial application!

[lugaru]

Have you ever seen those candy decoration competitions on food network where poeple make sulptures with sugar and chocolate and stuff? It would be hilarious to watch these guy's show up and while all the chefs are running around they are just sitting there clicking on their 3d software like "let's put more flowers on it..."

[Uncle Yuan]

LOL - I was thinking the exact same thing!

:toasts: To the Food Channel!

[stumpy]

That is very cool! Of course, my dentist is having nightmares...  :D

I am curious about the sugar hopper and applicator design. That is, how to they get an even layer of sugar onto the print bed for each pass? Was that in the write-up and I just missed it? (I can think of a couple ways to do that, but I am curious what they went with...)

[Mr. Hamrick]

That is very cool! Of course, my dentist is having nightmares...  :D

I am curious about the sugar hopper and applicator design. That is, how to they get an even layer of sugar onto the print bed for each pass? Was that in the write-up and I just missed it? (I can think of a couple ways to do that, but I am curious what they went with...)

why would the dentist be having nightmares?  the sugar is being used to make art and print not decay teeth.

course, i may be misreading the article.

[stumpy]

But the "art" is just caramelized sugar, so it's edible (regardless of whether that was the intent). Thus my weak little joke. Of course, I don't know how opposed a dentist is going to be to something that could increase his business...  :P

[Uncle Yuan]

Of course, I don't know how opposed a dentist is going to be to something that could increase his business...  :P

And your doctor really wishes you would get fat, not exercise and smoke . . .  :P

[stumpy]

I knew something was fishy about that all pizza and cigarettes diet!  :lol:

(trying hard to resist an anchovy pun..)