3D chocolate printer made from LEGO

Step 10 Lets build some chocolate stuff!

Here's the finished (well, you know, in a rough prototype kind of way) printer.

there are only 3 controllable ports on the rcx brick i used, so one for x, one for y, and one for the extrusion control. you'd need to gang two rcx bricks to further control temperature and the z axis.

I did end up doing 5 layer builds of 3D things like the letter A. unfortunately without a release / support material the geometry is limited, but it was still cool.

hopefully someone will rebuild this and simplify it.

Comments

[ProCactus]

what does it do?

If someone makes a chocolate printer, You would think they had an example.
Maybe" Step 10 - Lets build some chocolate stuff!" is not finished?

[geckomage]

haha, i was just using my labs 3d printer and then saw this article so i figured i'd give it a read :) support material would be hard to do for this one :( i use a special type of plastic that desolves in a special acid bath and leaves the structural material behind :)

[er0401]

Omg u should submit this to Lego magazine and see if they'll let an adults cool creation be entered! :)

[930913]

Awsome- great job. I liked the comment idea of a lego printer that prints legos hahaha. GJ

[whiteboipumas]

wat is this supposed to do? make shapes of chocoalate?

[930913]

*sigh*

[jokerrabit]

wouldn't be to much to substitute hot glue or plastic with a low melting temp for chocolate to make patterns for parts and things.

[zeplin00]

this ROCKS I didn't do it but one of my friends did =P

[jakesllama]

you should enter a Lego contest! very cool

[beetlegossip]

dude you rock.

[nittywitty]

show us an example of what it makes!

[SugarTeen52]

It`s a great idea!! Keep inventing. Maybe you`ll invent something that the world will benefit from! (if you don`t eat it first!! : ))