The MIT students who hacked together a Cuisinart soft-serve machine, a Solidoodle, and a freezer to create this wonderful 3D ice cream printer have no plans to commercialize it; they just built it as a proof-of-concept. And that’s too bad, because if perfected this machine has the potential to engineer a perfect ice cream cone that’s far less likely to topple.
In its current form, the machine’s print head extrudes soft-serve ice cream produced by the Cuisinart that’s immediately blasted with liquid nitrogen to solidify it in place. And to ensure whatever’s being printed doesn’t immediately start to melt, the printing bed is entombed in a sub-zero freezer.
via Gizmodo
