Multi-Color Pancake Printer

Senior Capstone Project (Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University)

(Group Members: Justin Abel, Osvaldo Chimalpopoca, Joshua Fuhrman, Jonathan Perry, Aaron Tian)

Overview: We designed and manufactured a two-axis pancake printing system (similar to CNC router or laser cutter) that will automate the breakfast making process by allowing users to create fun and stimulating multi­-colored flapjacks in various shapes and designs. This product gives the user the choice of either printing a pancake from a wide selection of preloaded designs, creating their own designs to load into the product, or controlling the printing head with an external controller. While another similar product currently exists in the market, no other product provides the functionality to print delicious pancakes in multiple colors. Therefore, our multi­-color pancake printer improves upon the state of the art and is truly the first of its kind.