3D-Printed Ice Cream Guarantees the Perfectly Balanced Cone

The MIT students who hacked together a Cuisinart soft - serve machine , a Solidoodle , and a freezer to create thiswonderful 3D ice pick printerhave no plans to market it ; they just built it as a cogent evidence - of - concept . And that ’s too bad , because if perfected this machine has the voltage to engineer a arrant ice cream cone that ’s far less probable to topple .

In its current form , the motorcar ’s print head extrudes gentle - serve ice cream produced by the Cuisinart that ’s like a shot blast with liquid nitrogen to solidify it in place . And to ensure whatever ’s being print does n’t like a shot start to melt , the printing bed is inter in a sub - zero freezer .

So far the students have only bring home the bacon in print simple shapes like a star , but the potential to turn a banana tree split into a genuine study of graphics will hopefully inspire them to one Clarence Shepard Day Jr. continue the political machine ’s growth — or at the least , make it work with Rocky Road . [ YouTubeviaTechCrunch ]