Gingerbread 3D Printer
By Poppy Mosbacher. Posted
This article was originally published as part of HackSpace magazine, which has since been incorporated into Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.
This edible centrepiece has been made using 3D printed cookie cutters, which are available to download here.
The 3Demon-3Dprint team, who baked the project, suggest assembling the small gingerbread shapes first as “gluing a sliding extruder to a standing printer” is a challenge. The shapes are connected using royal icing, but you can hide the joins with cocoa. They recreated the filament using Fini Roller candy and strawberry laces.
A quick intro to Python – short scripts, rapid results.
If you’d like to design your own cookie cutters, the video below shows how to do it using Adobe Illustrator and TinkerCAD.
Instructions to make the gingerbread 3D printer are available here.
Safety warning – Make sure you use food-safe filament and that the 3D printer's nozzle does not contain lead.
Poppy is a maker and writer. She loves getting tech into the hands of people who do traditional crafts. She is helping set up a makerspace in Devon and was a director of BuildBrighton makerspace.
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