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Re: Chocolate Lego Printer...
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:04:03 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Tim Courtney wrote:
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So, how does this thing work?
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Hey Tim,
I came to this story through core77.com, a neat ID
e-zine.
As far as I can tell (I hate reading a geeky BLOG to figure out someone’s
project!) it “prints” a little dot of chocolate by moving a plate under a “print
head” that extrudes the product. Or maybe it moves the head over the plate? I
can’t tell. I have no idea how it handles undercuts, as it has no way of making
“support” (maybe add a second head extruding peanut butter? LOL). Without that I
guess it just makes a lump.
I love the idea of chocolate as an RP material - it melts into itself, so no
stepover marks! Of course the whole “part” also just melts into goo, so not
exactly stable to look at for very long. But I suppose it’s not made to be
looked at.. it’s supposed to be funny.
I wish the little movie link worked, that way we could see the finished product.
Darrell
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| (...) So, how does this thing work? Some of you might recall I toted around some LEGO bricks made with various rapid prototyping machines at BrickFest (you can see a photo here: (URL) I'll have the opportunity to make more RP LEGO parts in the (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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