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# Extrudough
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/extrudough/
- Published: 2013-04-23T11:22:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:01:32.000Z
- Description: Designers from Piet Zwart Institute produce an "analogue, human-powered 3D printer."
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, Technology, Food & Drink, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21, #author-change-2025-05-28

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For all the ooh-aah auspices of 3D printing, we seem to have collectively forgotten that humans made pretty sophisticated 3D things by hand once-upon-a-time. Really. And so in a stroke of genius, students from Rotterdam’s [Piet Zwart Institute](http://pzwart.wdka.nl/home/?ref=protein.xyz) fashioned an “analogue, human-powered 3D printer” to remind us of just that. Part of the [Altered Appliances](http://extra.wdka.nl/alteredappliances/?ref=protein.xyz) series we wrote about [last week](http://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/04/rollware?ref=protein.xyz), it is essentially a hand-cranked meat grinder fed with homemade dough and reminds us of a deliciously lo-fi version of the revolutionary [3Doodler.](http://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/02/3d-printed-doodles?ref=protein.xyz)  
  
While the project is more tongue-in-cheek than anything, it does provide a compelling counterpoint to 3D printing fervour. Will CNC and DIY 3D really bring about as big as a disruption to the product landscape as many predict? Bust out the Play-Doh and give it some thought.

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