It is definitely a first world problem: What do you do when creating a custom pancake requires you to put a design on an SD card and plug it into your pancake printer? This is what was nagging at [drtorq]. Granted, since he works for a publication called “The Stack” maybe a pancake printer isn’t so surprising. [drtorq] built the custom PancakeBOT software on Linux as a start to his hacking on the flapjack creating robot.
[drtorq] promises more hacking on the printer in the future, so this is just step one. We expect the mods will be a lot like a typical 3D printer, except the heated bed is absolutely necessary on this model. The printer is more like a CNC engraver than a 3D printer since it is basically an XY carriage with a nozzle that flows batter instead of polymer.
We’ve seen a lot of chocolate printers. Gummy bears are printable, too. For the more adult beverage-minded, you can print designs in a Jell-O shot, too. We are a little surprised we haven’t seen a conventional 3D printer or CNC modded to do pancakes but we have certainly seen other bootstrapped versions.
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