Comments on: Frostbot: CNC cookie frosting

By: cake decorator

cake decorator — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:32:41 +0000

CNC is really cool! I wonder if it could be adapted to do designs on cupcakes as they are all the rage / fashion at the moment. A great addition to the cake decorating world. cake decorator

By: walter hynson

walter hynson — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:02:38 +0000

You should use an screw type extruder for the icing to flow properly try to find an playdough type an design your own interface and tips and you will get much better results,also please get this machine FDA approved and you can sell it to bakeries. WCH

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 04:08:09 +0000

got milk?

By: Gene Hacker

Gene Hacker — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:14:58 +0000

Check out my frostbot/3d printer that extrudes frosting.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Polar-3-D-Printer

I built mine out of Legos and I used a Polar, instead of a cartesian, control scheme.

And I am still working out the control software

By: Ivan Irons

Ivan Irons — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:53:39 +0000

Cool. CNC in the kitchen. I never knew I could possibly get my mother into this hobby.

Great idea!

Ivan Irons
http://www.cncinformation.com

By: Skyler Orlando

Skyler Orlando — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:23:32 +0000

oh boy... now I want a CNC machine.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:46:22 +0000

You could set it up so that you had it decorate multiple cookies by creating designs over the same image you want to create, and placing cookies in said locations.

By: cartufer

cartufer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:26:02 +0000

it might be useful to enable the bot to ice a cookie moving at a slow speed on a coveyor belt or offsets on a cookie sheet

By: erik

erik — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:32:31 +0000

You would have to flush the old color of frosting out of the dispenser every time you changed colors.
I think it would be easier (and less wasteful) to just color-separate the image and then print each resulting halftone screen onto the cookie in cyan, magenta, yellow and black.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:01:48 +0000

I wonder if anyones tried using 3 primary colors of frosting and a mixing dispenser to make a full color decorator…