To keep the ice cream cold and in shape, the 3D printer was placed inside a small freezer, while the printed mixture itself was sprayed with a liquid nitrogen solution.

The team took an ordinary off-the-shelf soft-serve ice cream machine and then attached it to a Solidoodle 3D printer. “The technology is called fused deposition modeling,” Hounsell explains.

3D printing technology has already been used to liven up sugar cubes and chocolate, but now a trio of students from MIT have created the world’s first 3D ice cream printer.

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The MIT students who hacked together a Cuisinart soft-serve machine, a Solidoodle, and a freezer to create this wonderful 3D ice cream printer have no plans to commercialize it; they just built it ...

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