BurritoB0t - 3D printer for burritos

I love 3D printers, but this to me is pointless. With a chocolate printer people see the printed design, but with this you're putting the printed feature on a tortilla that's about to be rolled up. I think I'll stick with a spoon.

nnnnni• 14 years ago

Fast food restaurant automation.

HeyLaughingBoy2• 14 years ago

I can build a burrito making machine that is a hell of a lot simpler than a 3D printer. You just need a set of solid and liquid dispensers and a folder.

moocow01• 14 years ago

Firstly, very cool. Secondly, why burritos?

From my perspective the form factor of a burrito doesn't mesh with the strengths of 3d printing. It seems like you might be able to get an equally good burrito with mechanized squirt bottles that move in a semi random pattern.

I could definitely see 3d printing being great for a number of food applications - cakes, candies, food sculptures, etc.

Don't want to take away from the effort because its very creative but perhaps fill that sucker up with some different types of food materials.

polyfractal2• 14 years ago

From the creator's About page:

>The only thing I enjoy more than making cool stuff is making a decent burrito.

Burritob0t is my thesis project as a graduate student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), 2012. I made my little bot as a means of exploring my two passions – digital fabrication and good food.

Mexican fast food is emblematic of the assembly line, mass produced era of modern consumables – appropriating the authenticity of the ethnic food sensibility it purports to embody while masquerading as an edible like substance. Because the burrito is a mass market consumable, it lends easily as a way for examining and stimulating discussion on various aspects of the food industry including: how and where our food is grown, methods of production, environmental impact, cultural appropriation and perhaps most importantly – what our food means to us. By parodying the humble burrito’s ingredients and methods of production we can shed light on these exogenous factors and interconnected systems surrounding the simple burrito.

jff• 14 years ago

Translation: I know it's pointless but it's ~art~ so you can't criticize me--this isn't meant to do anything important, it's meant to "stimulate discussion".

geuis• 14 years ago

Quick note to the owner of the site. Please make a few visual changes. Increase your font size. With "Abel", 13px is very tiny and hard to read. The other thing at issue is the color. Its grey text on a white background and really strains the eye.

BurritoB0t - 3D printer for burritos

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