I worked on a project involving 3D printing food using a series of extrusion print heads. This resulted in a series of multi-layer multi-material food prints, one such print consisted of pancake batter and chocolate. I worked on the construction of the printers and wrote a program to produce g-code files to generate the print. This project required rheological analysis to successfully print foods with different mechanical properties, both while the materials were being extruded, and after the materials had been extruded, as the printer materials can undergo physical changes over time. This rheological information had to be included in the generative program so that the printer code could compensate for these physical changes over time.
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