3D freeform rapid prototyping for CANDY! Suger-rush here I come!

[gjehle]

Solid freeform fabrication: DIY, on the cheap, and made of pure sugar
In February we gave a sneak preview of our project to construct a home-built three dimensional fabricator. Our design goals were (1) a low cost design leveraging recycled components (2) large printable volume emphasized over high resolution, and (3) ability to use low-cost printing media including granulated sugar. We are extremely pleased to be able to report that it has been a success: Our three dimensional fabricator is now fully operational and we have used it to print several large, low-resolution, objects out of pure sugar.

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab

from http://www.evilmadscientist.com/

[mouser]

wake me when it can use chocolate.

[app103]

wake me when it can use chocolate.

Wake up, mouser!

It's already being done in chocolate. 

And you can build one yourself! (as soon as you are finished with the bookcase) 

Price tags for these machines average around $100,000, but you can build your own Fab@Home for about $2,300 worth of off-the-shelf parts. The prototype, designed by Evan Malone, a Ph.D. candidate in Lipson's Computational Synthesis Laboratory, is slower than the commercial models, and its resolution, or ability or produce fine detail, is lower, but people are finding practical -- and often unexpected -- uses for it.

http://www.physorg.com/news92328869.html

[Deozaan]

I want to immortalize my WoW avatar in sugar and chocolate!