Preface

In 2012, Make: magazine asked me how I came to invent the PancakeBot. I told them that one day for breakfast I was drawing pancakes for my daughters Lily and Maia and reading Make: magazine. There was an article (http://makezine.com/2014/02/11/blockheads/) that described using LEGO to build a prototype of a machine that stamps images onto pancakes. I don’t know exactly how it happened, but I think I mentioned the article to Lily and the next thing I heard was, “Maia! Papa is going to make a pancake machine!” Maia screamed in excitement and both of them did some kind of dance, and the next thing I knew, I was on the hook to make a PancakeBot.

Over the next few years, I brought different versions of the PancakeBot to Maker Faires in New ...

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