Comments on: Rapid prototyping with sugar and lasers

By: rapid prototyping

rapid prototyping — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:37:59 +0000

can it rapided with salt?

By: daewootech

daewootech — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:01:30 +0000

i tried this with some shitty sugar i had at work that was layered with cinnamon i think, it was for putting on popcorn. its really fragile, and although you can pick up the designs they tend to fall apart fairly easily, the white of the sugar tends to deflect alot of the light, it would be interesting to try with darker sugar, like maybe sugar in the raw.

By: Cdnrod

Cdnrod — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:42:43 +0000

How about liquifying first, and using an inkjet head to deposit the layers?

By: toner dolumu

toner dolumu — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:53:50 +0000

:) if the wirks with some other sugar aswell and colors and stuff.. this is going to be quite cool :D

By: rapid prototype

rapid prototype — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:24:13 +0000

what is the resolution of your sugar printer ? ;>)

By: Mio

Mio — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:54:06 +0000

I wonder what would happen if they tried it with a finer sugar.

By: rizumus

rizumus — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:31:40 +0000

Lol, I’m apparently the only guy living under a rock who didn’t know lasers were capable of this o_o

By: n1Ls

n1Ls — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:46:02 +0000

nice :D

By: aMediumPace

aMediumPace — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:28:52 +0000

I’d like to try this with sugar in liquid form, like the type used for making cotton candy. That would be rad.

By: Taylor Alexander

Taylor Alexander — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:53:17 +0000

damn, this is actually really cool.
if a laser cutter and a 3d fabber could be easily combined, the machine would be more useful than either one on its own and may not cost much more!
-Taylor

By: 36Chambers

36Chambers — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:03:04 +0000

This is pretty dope, I could definitely see this being a commercial product, same with the candy fab.

I could see a bakery using one of these (think Ace of Cakes)

By: andre

andre — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:40:04 +0000

this is pretty neat. i wonder if you could achieve the same effect with multiple low wattage IR or visible lasers focussed on the same spot?

would be neat, i have done ultrafine engraving with a modified Bluray write diode (sub 0.05mm focus) so it could work.

-A

By: hence

hence — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:26:36 +0000

if the wirks with some other sugar aswell and colors and stuff.. this is going to be quite cool :D

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:11:57 +0000

Since the sugar never comes into physical contact with anything else, it should be save to eat. I couldn’t resist and tried a bit of the last test, and it tasted exactly like caramelized sugar, no big surprise.

By: epicelite

epicelite — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:03:46 +0000

Laser shaped candy only $1!