14 DAY TRIAL // Pancakes are a wildly popular breakfast all around the world, especially in the USA and Great Britain, but there's ultimately a limit to how much you can customize them. Which wouldn't normally be a big deal, but maybe you want your kid to have fun while eating.
Also, parties could do well with some thematic snacks, and a nice, customized pancake shape could be just what the doctor ordered.
Spiderman faces, George Washington, My Little Pony, either of those could liven up your morning. We're making abstraction of the inherent morbidity of eating someone's face of course.
The PancakeBot has been developed with the express purpose of giving pancakes any shape you can think of, provided you can relay a suitable virtual model of course.
The PancakeBot breakfast printer
In a way, it might be a bit much to call this a 3D printer, since the robot doesn't print in more than one layer of batter.
Still, the principle is ultimately the same, even if neither the print bed or the extruder can go higher or lower than they already are.
The team behind the PancakeBot has a tank for the batter (which you have to provide yourself) and a second dispenser for the maple syrup (or whatever other syrup you happen to like).
The bot is composed of the following: an acrylic body, Adafruit motor shields, two stepper motors, two belt drives, a vacuum pump and an Atmel-based Arduino Mega system driving everything.
Considering that it took five years and several prototypes to finally yield a commercial version of the PancakeBot, it was about time it finally sold.
StoreBound, a company known for their history with helping individuals and startups that are in the business of creating things, has agreed to collaborate with PancakeBot on the selling side.
The alternative
We suppose you could just use cookie metal shapes, but they only come in a limited, pre-decided number of designs and they hardly allow for pancakes to be created in the size the PancakeBot does. There's a large difference between a little star or gingerbread man cutout and Spiderman's face.
Your kids would probably nibble on both, but variety never hurt anyone. Besides, a custom pancake robot is just so much cooler.
