The
SnackFax
Play with your food!
The SnackFax
prints your 3D designs remotely or locally in a sweet edible
extrusion.
Click here for:
(made during kid-testing, this movie
shows kid tester using the joystick interface,
the machine printing his drawing, and
the final product)
Kid-Testing: Yonathan makes a
BattleShip with the SnackFax.
The SnackFax is a prototype for a
modular educational toy platform that brings computer art creations of kids
6-16 to life in the physical world- teaching principles of sculpture,
construction, computerized drawing programs, future building technology, and
cooking.
Remote Printing
Teleporter Mode
The
SnackFax can be controlled remotely to teleport your virtual sculpture one
layer at a time into tasty reality by using a custom web-based software program. Try
out these interfaces:
Early Rotation-based Slice drawing
(may encorporate the rotating viewer
mode)
Drawing
One-Strip-at-a-time drawing using keys to navigate
(Is
this easier?)
Mouse-Controlled
Navigation and Foundation for Erasing
(Or is this easier?)
Demonstrating
Location-Sorting after Export to
Motor Control
Local Printing
Food Art Toy Mode
For
a more hands-on experience, the joystick control works kind of like one of
those old arcade claw grabber games, but instead of grabbing, it prints a
yummy, colorful gooey pile of icing into any shape you want.
SNACKFAX
TEAM PROGRESS REPORT:
4/20/06
Right now,
the SnackFax team (Britta Riley, Chris Kucinski, and Tikva Morowati) are back
in the shop making the model you saw in the kid-testing videos prettier and
more robust for the upcoming ITP Spring Show
on May 9 and 10 and for a presentation for Mattel
on May 1.
We are
building a box that will remind
you of the foodprinter in the Jetsons TV show or the food Replicator on Star
Trek.
Wish us
luck! Come visit us during the show! And feel free to send us any comments or
questions to brittariley@gmail.com.
