Molding the Sweetest Memories with 3D Printing

What’s better than 3D printing? Chocolate. And what’s better than chocolate? Chocolate photos made with 3D printing! Jason Lee of Somerville, Massachusetts has taken to Kickstarter to bring this delicious concept to the public with ChocoForm. Using a 3D printer…

Chocolate + Christmas + 3D Printing = Perfection?

This year will see a chocolately Christmas indeed for those home users and food professionals open to innovation with 3D chocolate printing. This Christmas, one of the pioneers of culinary printing, Choc Edge, is offering the newest version of its…

Edible Growth Puts the Fun in 3D Printed Fungus Food

Dutch designer Chloé Rutzerveld has created the Edible Growth project that uses a modified desktop 3D printer to print healthy and completely self-contained little bite size morsels of food made from multiple ingredients and even has living edible plants growing…

Agricultural Applications For Additive Manufacturing With GVL

Back in 1992 Lichfield Minnesota-based GVL Poly introduced metal-to-plastic conversion of poly snouts when a local farmer, the company’s founder, made the decision to increase the width of high crop rows. His experimentation with rotational molded polyethylene resulted in an innovative prototype…

Sharebot Used SnowWhite to Laser Sinter Sugar and It Worked Perfectly

Italy’s 3D printer manufacturer Sharebot has been in the news quite a bit lately. Arguably, among their many new projects and announcements, one of the most surprising one was SnowWhite, the first functional, commercialised low-cost laser sintering (LS) 3D printing…

F3D 3D Food Printer is Really Cooking

There have been a few different food printers that have come to the stage, like the Foodini, Candy, and the ChefJet from 3D Systems.  As amazing as these machines may be, they don’t quite fulfill the dream of a Star…

3D Systems Treats Renowned Chef to 3D Printed Absinthe Treat in 50 Course Modernist Meal

Though I’m not intimately involved with modernist chefs, I have the feeling that 3D printed food fits perfectly into this culinary art movement.  As chefs in the movement explore the science of food and radical methods for preparing it, 3D printing…

Barilla Launches 3D Printed Pasta Contest with Thingarage

In January, we reported news that leading pasta maker Barilla had teamed up with Dutch scientific research firm TNO to work on a custom 3D pasta printer, capable of printing 15-20 pieces of pasta every two minutes. The eventual idea…

Candy the New Consumer Confectionery 3D Printer Get’s Ready to Launch on Kickstarter

With a consumer friendly price tag, several eye catching colours and a sleek kitchen ready design the Candy Confectionery 3D Printer is hoping to kickstart itself into your home. The industry has been trying to make 3D printed food a thing…

Coming this Month: India’s First 3D Chocolate Printer for Less Than $1,000

3D printing with chocolate is the pursuit of a number of companies in the West, but this is the first time that I’m aware of an Indian company that has investigated 3D printing with edible materials. As India’s 3D printing…