3D printer for chocolate. You can buy a fully-assembled chocolate 3D printer, or you can buy a 3D printer kit, which is a lot cheaper, but you have to already have a 3D printer because you'll need to 3D print a bunch of parts.
Founded by Ellie Weinstein who started working on it in 2014 during an intro to engineering class in high school. And she just never gave up.
You can 3D print anything any regular 3D printer can print. You can get pre-made designs from sites like Printables, or you can design your own 3D models using CAD software. The printer uses industry-standard .stl and .3mf files.
Their cartridges have 70g of chocolate and that currently limits how large an object you can print.
You can use regular chocolate but they made their own formulation with a slightly higher melting point. It does this by using cocoa solids, but replaces the cocoa butter with palm oil. To use your own chocolate, you'll have to do some work get the printing temperature right and make the chocolate refills air bubble free.
You can pause the printing and add caramels, candies, marshmallows, etc, during a print. You can pause it manually or you can put a pause command in the G-code to tell the printer to pause at specified times.
The chocolate only touches four pieces that can all be removed without any tools and washed in the sink.
