Three MIT students have built a very special type of 3D printer: one that produces ice cream.
A group of students, Kyle Hounsell, Kristine Bunker and David Donghyun Kim, created the printer as part of a class project in additive manufacturing, hacking a Cuisinart soft-serve ice cream machine and attaching it to a Solidoodle 3D printer.
In order to maintain its shape, the students pumped a stream of liquid nitrogen over the ice cream as the printer laid out the shapes layer by layer.
You can already 3D print Nutella and roti (never mind a full dinner), but ice cream? We're into it.
Of course, several modifications must still be made before a 3D ice cream printer can be used in a commercial setting.
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