Fabaroni: 3D pasta printer
My fabrication class built a 3D scanner and printer last week (it was our assignment)! I worked on the 3D printer, which we called Fabaroni, because it produces 3D pasta shapes. The Fabaroni website has all the details about how it works, so if you’re interested please have a look!
December 9th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Did you happen to cook any of the pasta and actually eat it?
January 8th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
We didn’t! But I wonder what MIT-shaped pasta tastes like …
January 9th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
That is awesome. Did you folks built all the components or was it modular?
February 25th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Hi Jason — we loosely followed a design from Fab@Home (http://fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) but for most part designed it from scratch. It was modular in the sense that we were able to split up into to teams to work on different things, from mechanical design/machining to motor and software controls. More about how we did this here:
http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.07/11.05/fabaroni/process.html