Alright planning sucks....

Disclaimer: I never plan more than I have to and I tend to leave all planning to the last minute possible(proper hacker attitude isn't it?).

The thought of a pancake printer has been in the back of my head for ages, square pancakes with 8-bit graphics.

Pancakes is also one of the dishes I might say I excel at making, not the thick, fluffy american ones, thin european ones, those used to thick pancakes might call it crepes just as you call football soccer, I don't know...

Well I must admit I have made some planning, or well, done a bit of research / ideas that have cooked down to something concrete in my head and i'll try to put down some of the mess in my head using bullet points, because there is no better way of organizing stuff than bullet points:

* I will use a cartesian x/y setup just as any CNC mill or 3d printer, mainly so I can just spit out some gcode to make shapes in messy batter on a hot metal plate

* Peristaltic pumps to supply batter to the nozzle

* Main body constructed from aluminium profiles

* Design and 3d print as many components as possible.

Challenges:

* Figuring out EVERYTHING

* 3d printers failing halfway through a print

* Finding the optimal viscosity for pancake batter meant for printing.

* All the stuff that will go wrong