{"id":40815,"date":"2023-10-20T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/printer-creates-3d-chocolates-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:10:10","slug":"printer-creates-3d-chocolates-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/printer-creates-3d-chocolates-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Printer creates 3D chocolates &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/start-up-idea-choc-printer.jpg\" alt=\"start-up-idea-choc-printer\" title=\"start-up-idea-choc-printer\"\/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18525\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"start-up-idea-choc-printer\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/start-up-idea-choc-printer.jpg\" height=\"110\" width=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/start-up-idea-choc-printer.jpg 90w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/start-up-idea-choc-printer-61x75.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/>The machine squirts out chocolate and, via computer instructions, lets the user build any shape out of the food. The printer\u2019s maker, Choc Edge, says it can reproduce any shape.<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-6090\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Just] melt some chocolate, fill a syringe stored in the printer, and get creative printing your chocolate,\u201d says Dr Liang Hao of the University of Exeter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3D printing is a technology where a three dimensional object is created by building up successive layers of material.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The technology is already used in industry to produce plastic and metal products, but this is the first time the principles have been applied to chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes this technology special is that users will be able to design and make their own products\u2026 The possibilities are endless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If this is the case, why not come up with your own idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The machine squirts out chocolate and, via computer instructions, lets the user build any shape out of the food. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}