March 28, 2014 at 08:30Foodini 3D food printer for 1,000 euros raises funds on Kickstarter
Last fall, many media outlets wrote about Natural Machines' Foodini food printer.
On March 26, 2014, Kickstarter launched a campaign to raise funds for the production of the first series of printers.
We contacted the founder of Natural Machines, Emilio Sepulveda, and talked about the printer.
3D food printing is one of the most desirable applications for 3D printers.
In early 2012, Essential Dynamics announced the world's first food-grade 3D printer Imagine Machine . The printer went on sale in 2012 at a price of $ 3,000. Now on the manufacturer’s website is available the second generation of food 3D printers at a price of $ 3,795 (approximately 135,000 rubles).
Imagine Machine 3D printing process video:
In the spring of 2012, British scientists from Exeter University announced that they were able to create the world's first chocolate 3D printer. The difficulty of layer-by-layer printing with chocolate lies in the fact that the chocolate does not have time to cool down and subsequent layers prevent the 3D figure from forming. Scientists from the English county of Devonshire (where Exeter University is located) developed a technology for layering chocolate and called it CHOCALM. Based on this technology, the Chock Edge Creator V1 printer was developed . In the fall of 2013, it went on sale and is available on the official website for a price of 2888 English pounds (approximately 170,000 rubles).
By the way, we at Madrobots purchased this model of printer and realized that it is rather difficult to print chocolate with layers using it. But the sausage with mayonnaise manages to print real works of art.
Exeter University Chocolate Printer Demonstration:
The development of the project has been ongoing since 2012 by a team from Barcelona, Spain.
In the fall of 2013, the founders of the project presented the prototype of the printer to the public and began searching for venture financing. The site naturalmachines.com was created , the world's leading media wrote about the project, and about 400 pre-orders from the USA, China, and Russia were collected.
The idea behind the Foodini project is to inspire more people to eat healthy, home-made food made with fresh ingredients. Usually, cooking takes a lot of time, so people prefer cooking convenience convenience foods and frozen dinners.
The task of the printer is not to automate the entire cooking process, but to carry out repeated routine operations (like making dumplings or creating shaped cookies) for a person.
Project Video for the Kickstarter Campaign:
Foodini Printer Printing Technology - FDM (Material Overlay).
The printer squeezes liquid material onto the printing platform. Foodini is equipped with 5 capsules for five different ingredients, and each of the ingredients can be squeezed with different pressure and temperature. You can prepare the ingredients for printing using a conventional hand blender - grind the necessary food to a pasty state and fill the resulting mass into a capsule.
A printed dish can be consumed immediately after manufacturing, if you made a fruit dessert; bake in the oven if you printed pizza or cookies and cook if you printed dumplings or pasta.
Kickstarter is running a fundraising campaign to develop the first batch of Foodini 3D printers.
The production of the printer is planned to be established by January 2015.
Those who are willing to invest their money and wait almost a year can order Foodini for $ 999 (about 36,000 rubles).
There are several videos on the Natural Machines Youtube channel that demonstrate the printing process and its final product.
For example, pizza print:
Or the famous Fish and Fried Potato dish (fish and chips):
Pizza after printing and before the oven (cheese applied by hand):
Pizza after the oven:
Spinach dinosaurs:
Meat burgers:
Fish and chips (fish and chips):
More photos of printed dishes are available on the Natural Machines website .
Foodini has a built-in touch screen display on the front panel. The Foodini app allows you to access an online community with proven recipes, videos, and other materials to help you get started with the printing process.
Users can set a printing program by selecting a recipe directly from the application, as well as create a list of favorite recipes and receive the ingredients necessary for printing dishes.
A recipes site for Foodini will also be available as an app for iOS and Android.
For engineers and developers, Natural Machines will open an API to develop its own recipe applications.
For example, to create a configurator of ideal dumplings / ravioli.
Foodini app screenshot with selection of recipes:
After the user has selected a recipe, the printer will show which ingredients to add to the capsules and in what order.
A few days ago, we got in touch with the guys at Natural Machines.
The CEO of the company kindly agreed to answer a few questions.
Below are our questions and his answers. If you are interested in learning something else, write your question in the comments, we will try to ask Emilio in the near future. He responds quite quickly, so you can count on an answer.
Madrobots : Does your team have the relevant experience required to develop such a project?
Emilio : The founders of the project are engineers and marketers. Our team has engineers, designers, software developers, food technologists and nutritionists.
Madrobots : What technologies do you use at Foodini?
Emilio: We have developed a range of technologies and systems, including a new extruder mechanism, capsule replacement system and more. I can’t reveal the details, because right now we are patenting the developed technologies. The basis of the printing technology used in Foodini is FDM.
Madrobots : How Foodini differs from existing solutions in the food printer market. For example, from Imagine Machine?
Emilio :
A printer from Essential Dynamics is actually a 3D printer that uses food as print material. We have developed a household appliance that (as it turned out) uses 3D printing technology.
In general, we are distinguished by a complex of systems, plus a user interface and software.
Madrobots: How do you see the near future of food 3D printers?
Emilio :
We see our 3D printer as a closer embodiment of the replicator idea from Star Trek. We believe that it will be used not only in the domestic sphere, but also play an important role in medicine.
Madrobots : Who is the Foodini Target Audience? Who is interested in buying your printer?
Emilio :
We believe that we have created a truly household appliance and the main buyers of Foodini will be ordinary people for home cooking, as well as B2B customers (restaurants, pastry shops, catering companies).
Madrobots : What are some scenarios for using Foodini?
Emilio :
Foodini is designed to help people cook at home using fresh ingredients, no preservatives or chemical additives, as opposed to convenience foods.
Our device does all the cooking work (for example, making ravioli can take 2 hours and another half an hour to clean the table and the consequences of cooking. With Foodini, the whole process will take only 10 minutes and there will be no need to clean it). In addition, Foodini will allow you to create dishes that are impossible to make with your hands and we work with several chefs with Michelin stars (stars from the most respected restaurant guide in the world ) to develop such recipes.
Madrobots will be the official distributor of Natural Machines in Russia. If there are no special overlays in production, already in February 2015, the printer can be bought in Russia.
You can support the project on Kickstarter or leave a request on the Madrobots website. The application on our website does not oblige you to anything, we just inform you about the start of Foodini sales in Russia.
Support Foodini on Kickstarter (and pre-order the printer for $ 999).
Leave a request on the Madrobots website (at a price of 49,990 rubles).
On March 26, 2014, Kickstarter launched a campaign to raise funds for the production of the first series of printers.
We contacted the founder of Natural Machines, Emilio Sepulveda, and talked about the printer.
Background of food 3D printers
Imagine machine
3D food printing is one of the most desirable applications for 3D printers.
In early 2012, Essential Dynamics announced the world's first food-grade 3D printer Imagine Machine . The printer went on sale in 2012 at a price of $ 3,000. Now on the manufacturer’s website is available the second generation of food 3D printers at a price of $ 3,795 (approximately 135,000 rubles).
Imagine Machine 3D printing process video:
Chock Edge Creator V1
In the spring of 2012, British scientists from Exeter University announced that they were able to create the world's first chocolate 3D printer. The difficulty of layer-by-layer printing with chocolate lies in the fact that the chocolate does not have time to cool down and subsequent layers prevent the 3D figure from forming. Scientists from the English county of Devonshire (where Exeter University is located) developed a technology for layering chocolate and called it CHOCALM. Based on this technology, the Chock Edge Creator V1 printer was developed . In the fall of 2013, it went on sale and is available on the official website for a price of 2888 English pounds (approximately 170,000 rubles).
By the way, we at Madrobots purchased this model of printer and realized that it is rather difficult to print chocolate with layers using it. But the sausage with mayonnaise manages to print real works of art.
Exeter University Chocolate Printer Demonstration:
Foodini
The development of the project has been ongoing since 2012 by a team from Barcelona, Spain.
In the fall of 2013, the founders of the project presented the prototype of the printer to the public and began searching for venture financing. The site naturalmachines.com was created , the world's leading media wrote about the project, and about 400 pre-orders from the USA, China, and Russia were collected.
Project Description Foodini
The idea behind the Foodini project is to inspire more people to eat healthy, home-made food made with fresh ingredients. Usually, cooking takes a lot of time, so people prefer cooking convenience convenience foods and frozen dinners.
The task of the printer is not to automate the entire cooking process, but to carry out repeated routine operations (like making dumplings or creating shaped cookies) for a person.
Project Video for the Kickstarter Campaign:
Foodini Printer Printing Technology - FDM (Material Overlay).
The printer squeezes liquid material onto the printing platform. Foodini is equipped with 5 capsules for five different ingredients, and each of the ingredients can be squeezed with different pressure and temperature. You can prepare the ingredients for printing using a conventional hand blender - grind the necessary food to a pasty state and fill the resulting mass into a capsule.
A printed dish can be consumed immediately after manufacturing, if you made a fruit dessert; bake in the oven if you printed pizza or cookies and cook if you printed dumplings or pasta.
Kickstarter is running a fundraising campaign to develop the first batch of Foodini 3D printers.
The production of the printer is planned to be established by January 2015.
Those who are willing to invest their money and wait almost a year can order Foodini for $ 999 (about 36,000 rubles).
There are several videos on the Natural Machines Youtube channel that demonstrate the printing process and its final product.
For example, pizza print:
Or the famous Fish and Fried Potato dish (fish and chips):
Examples of foodini printed dishes
Pizza after printing and before the oven (cheese applied by hand):
Pizza after the oven:
Spinach dinosaurs:
Meat burgers:
Fish and chips (fish and chips):
More photos of printed dishes are available on the Natural Machines website .
Foodini Online Platform
Foodini has a built-in touch screen display on the front panel. The Foodini app allows you to access an online community with proven recipes, videos, and other materials to help you get started with the printing process.
Users can set a printing program by selecting a recipe directly from the application, as well as create a list of favorite recipes and receive the ingredients necessary for printing dishes.
A recipes site for Foodini will also be available as an app for iOS and Android.
For engineers and developers, Natural Machines will open an API to develop its own recipe applications.
For example, to create a configurator of ideal dumplings / ravioli.
Foodini app screenshot with selection of recipes:
After the user has selected a recipe, the printer will show which ingredients to add to the capsules and in what order.
Printer Iron Foodini
Preliminary printer specifications:
- Dimensions: 43.8 cm W x 43.0 cm D x 43.0 cm H
- Print area dimensions: 25.0 cm W x 16.5 cm D x 12.0 cm H
- Weight: 10.4 kg
- Touch panel: 7 inches running OC Android
- Internet connection support: Wi-Fi module
- Swivel glass platform: diameter 26 cm
- Capsules: Up to 5 capsules can be loaded into Foodini at a time. Only one capsule can print at a time. Capsule replacement is automatic. The capsule material is steel or plastic that does not contain Bisphenol A (BPA-free).
- Capsule capacity: 123 ml
- 5 capsule capacity up to: 615 ml
Short interview with Natural Machines CEO Emilio Sepulveda:
A few days ago, we got in touch with the guys at Natural Machines.
The CEO of the company kindly agreed to answer a few questions.
Below are our questions and his answers. If you are interested in learning something else, write your question in the comments, we will try to ask Emilio in the near future. He responds quite quickly, so you can count on an answer.
Madrobots : Does your team have the relevant experience required to develop such a project?
Emilio : The founders of the project are engineers and marketers. Our team has engineers, designers, software developers, food technologists and nutritionists.
Madrobots : What technologies do you use at Foodini?
Emilio: We have developed a range of technologies and systems, including a new extruder mechanism, capsule replacement system and more. I can’t reveal the details, because right now we are patenting the developed technologies. The basis of the printing technology used in Foodini is FDM.
Madrobots : How Foodini differs from existing solutions in the food printer market. For example, from Imagine Machine?
Emilio :
A printer from Essential Dynamics is actually a 3D printer that uses food as print material. We have developed a household appliance that (as it turned out) uses 3D printing technology.
In general, we are distinguished by a complex of systems, plus a user interface and software.
Madrobots: How do you see the near future of food 3D printers?
Emilio :
We see our 3D printer as a closer embodiment of the replicator idea from Star Trek. We believe that it will be used not only in the domestic sphere, but also play an important role in medicine.
Madrobots : Who is the Foodini Target Audience? Who is interested in buying your printer?
Emilio :
We believe that we have created a truly household appliance and the main buyers of Foodini will be ordinary people for home cooking, as well as B2B customers (restaurants, pastry shops, catering companies).
Madrobots : What are some scenarios for using Foodini?
Emilio :
Foodini is designed to help people cook at home using fresh ingredients, no preservatives or chemical additives, as opposed to convenience foods.
Our device does all the cooking work (for example, making ravioli can take 2 hours and another half an hour to clean the table and the consequences of cooking. With Foodini, the whole process will take only 10 minutes and there will be no need to clean it). In addition, Foodini will allow you to create dishes that are impossible to make with your hands and we work with several chefs with Michelin stars (stars from the most respected restaurant guide in the world ) to develop such recipes.
Madrobots will be the official distributor of Natural Machines in Russia. If there are no special overlays in production, already in February 2015, the printer can be bought in Russia.
You can support the project on Kickstarter or leave a request on the Madrobots website. The application on our website does not oblige you to anything, we just inform you about the start of Foodini sales in Russia.
Support Foodini on Kickstarter (and pre-order the printer for $ 999).
Leave a request on the Madrobots website (at a price of 49,990 rubles).