A toroidal coil sculpture printed out of pure sugar on the CandyFab.
Photography by Windell Oskay
CandyFab
How we built a 3D freeform sugar printer in our kitchen.
LAST YEAR, WE HAD A CRAZY IDEA. It started out something like this: “Wouldn’t it be cool if we had a 3D printer?” Machines for printing three-dimensional forms do, of course, exist, and utilize a variety of complementary and competing technologies known by such intimidating names as stereolithography, selective laser sintering, and fused deposition modeling. If this were ten years in the future, we would just go down to one of our local big-box stores ...
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