Print your own Pizza….
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
How about printing out your own Pizza
NASA is slated to fund a 3-D printed pizza project.
Most people wanting a pizza just call and have a restaurant deliver it. When you’re NASA, apparently you commission a special 3D printer so you can create your own.
With the goal of providing astronauts the means to create food during very long space journeys, NASA is looking into food printing.
They have issued a 6 month grant to Anjan Contractor of Systems & Materials Research Corporation to come up with a prototype printer.
His own Earthbound goals are to end global food shortages by using open source software for collaboration around the world.
Contractor would like to see a 3D food printer in every kitchen in the world and special food-making printer cartridges on every grocery shelf.
If his vision becomes a reality, it could mean the end of food waste, as he’ll design the cartridges to have a shelf life of 30 years.
For now, however, NASA calls and the engineer is hard at work. His first project will be a pizza. It’ll print in layers, with the crust simultaneously being printed and baking.
Toppings and sauce will start off in powder form and be mixed with water and oil during the printing process.
3D printed pizza is a lot safer than printing weapons
As you may remember I did a blog some time ago about 3D printing guns, well this is the other side of the technology and it could lead to feeding maybe thousands if not millions around the world and not just pizza.
As I’ve said in that blog the uses of 3D printers is spreading far and wide and I first came across the technology when a number of Formula One car racing teams use the technology to make up small essential parts for their cars quickly and without having to fly them across the world. We are getting to the age of the 3D printer. So when you next want a pizza you won’t need to ring up for one you will just print it off in your own kitchen. Just make sure you get a stock of toner cartridges in your favourite flavours.
Dominoes and Pizza Express aren’t going to be pleased if everyone just prints off their own pizza. Then again the manufacturers of typewriters weren’t overly enthused when word processors came on the scene. I think that’s called progress.
Whatever’s next.. print your own bicycle..
So whether it’s a pizza or a bicycle the age of 3D printers is here and uses will expand and expand.
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