
There are even plotters that
draw with food! PancakeBot was
created by Miguel Valenzuela for
his daughters. The first prototype
was made with a LEGO Mindstorms
Robotics kit. It squirted pancake
batter from computer-controlled
ketchup bottles onto a hot griddle
to create tasty hotcakes shaped like
rocket ships, buildings, animals, and more. Today, Lily, Maia, and Charlotte
help their dad demonstrate factory-made PancakeBot machines at schools
and maker events. (You can find Miguel’s instructions for building a real
working hand-powered food printer from LEGO bricks in my book Edible
Inventions.)
A much simpler style of drawing robot travels acr ...