🍫 Printing Chocolate, Creating an Internet Canvas, and More Aliexpress Finds

Print your desserts

Helllllooooo and welcome to this week’s issue of the Land of Random.

We had a busy week last week - one weekend we spent in Cleveland TN, this weekend we celebrated our son’s second Birthday!

If you live anywhere near Tennessee - I recommend making a daytrip to visit the Lodge Cast Iron museum + store.

They have super discounted factory defect cast iron for veryyy cheap.

I got a 13 inch pan, and a 5 quart dutch oven for like $45ish bucks!

It was ALSO a wild week on the internet last week - with Netflix announcing the end of its DVD service

Elon getting rid of all the legacy blue checks,

and Fishtank going live.

People going WILD with Snapchat AI

And don’t even get me started on that insane Unrecord trailer that may start an entire genre in gaming all by itself.

A game that feels so realistic it hurts your head? Yeah. Watch it.

I’ve been thinking about adding little interviews as some of the “main topics” when I have a chance. Would y’all be interested if I interview guests for the newsletter once in a while?

Let’s dive in, shall we?

🍫Printing Chocolate

I’ve written about Cocoa Press before, but it’s FINALLY available for preorder - and it’s going to be a side hustle goldmine.

Ah, so you like to make money do ye?

Well, for the next few years - you could probably print money with the Cocoa Press’s chocolate 3D printer.

Same 3D files as a normal 3D printer, same tools to print the chocolate . . .

The custom orders alone from restaurants could CRUSH.

why yes another 30 chocolate plates for next week? Of course.

50 army men for the bakery for those birthday cakes?

And so on . . .

Check out the printer.

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Looks very similar to a normal 3D printer - but this time - your mistakes are EDIBLE.

The first set on sale is the DIY kit - aimed at 3D printing enthusiasts.

For this one - you gotta print a lot of the pieces in order to get started.

Please note that the Cocoa Press DIY kit is intended for users with prior 3D printing experience, as it requires assembly and 3D printing your own parts. Assembly is estimated to take around 10 hours. No previous electronics experience is required. (source)

At $1500, it’s a lot cheaper than buying the $3000+ professional kit.

They plan to add an option to buy the 3D-printed pieces at checkout - but i’m not sure how much this adds to the $1500 price.

What about the chocolate?

You can buy special cartridges - or experiment with your own chocolate to see what works. I appreciate that they don’t lock in the printer to prevent such experimentation.

There’s nothing worse than spending a lot on gadgets that prevent you from “going off the grid.”

One could even say that it goes completely against the ethos of the 3D printer space.

Check out the Cocoa Press at the link!

🎨Creating an Internet Canvas

Many dream of being able to just “create” on the internet.

Wouldn’t you want a digital medium with the expressive ease of paper? - XHfloz

Free from the restrictions of WordPress, Squarespace, or other such programs.

Tools like Elementor or Webflow have arrived in more recent years to satisfy such cravings - but at the expense of lots of time to learn the tools.

XH wants to make a place on the internet where people can create digital spaces without having to get too technical.

Since its launch in 2021 - mmm.page has improved in leaps and bounds. It’s easy to use, and getting more powerful every update.

It even spawned a clone competitor called Poxi.Page

You know you’re on to something when the clone competitors show up . . .

Anyway, XH outlined a few ideals for mmm’s vision. Here are my favorite two.

• “Genuinely mixed media. Add anything you want: images, text, videos. Embed services too: maps, music, IDEs, iFrames of other websites. Even draw directly on it.

• Flexible for any use. It should feel natural for a wide variety of uses. The medium itself shouldn’t imply any use. E.g., the same 8.5”×11” can be a handwritten note, or a flyer, or scratch paper.” (source)

The idea that the medium “shouldn’t imply any use” is pretty fascinating - one that we’ve seen taken by many whiteboard apps over the past few years.

Excalidraw and Kinopio.club certainly come to mind.

mmm.page is just the website version of this vison.

Blank digital paper to create whatever you’d like.

The next part of this digital vision is mmm.town - which will be pretty cool when it comes out.

Digital Paper - but with a community layer.

Go check out more of XH’s vision at the link! or check out mmm.page below.

🛍️More Aliexpress Finds

I know, I know - I missed a whole episode in March, but I’m making up for it this month.

I went ahead and reviewed everything from the last few packages I bought - so this is a bit of a longer video.

Let me know if there’s anything you want me to review, or what you think of the video!

🐙The Land of Random

Intoooooooooooo the randommmmmmmmmm weeeee goooooooo

A Number From a Ghost

Quite possibly one of the best 3D music experiences I’ve ever had. The music is awesome. The visual experience is amazing. I’m simply in awe!!! If you click one link in this newsletter today - let it be this one haha.

A Banger Meme Song

Do you know of Bowsette? Whether you get into Mario subculture or not, this song is lit. Think early 2000’s Pop Punk.

The Worst Google Job Ever

Guy gets job offer at Google. Guy goes through lots of hard work to prepare for job. Fired 10 days before he can start.

Synthwave Space Shooter

This looks pretty fun! 80’s arcade shooter vibes.

Amazon Bans Flipper Zero

Can’t say i’m surprised. It probably won’t be long until it’s only available on the Flipper website or “hacker” ecom stores.

Read Articles Gmail Style

The news of the net in the comfort of a gmail style experience. Very interesting! There’s a TON of interesting news sources to explore that you may not know about . . .

More Episodes of your favorite shows?

If only Sherlock had more episodes. Well, thanks to GPT-4 it does now - at least the scripts anyway. Explore AI generated scripts for extra episodes of shows at the link!

🤖AI AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

See if you’re a human with this simple test. I failed - I’ll admit.

Build a no code app in minutes with Imagica? Definitely worth trying to get into the beta for imho.

When this comes out, the internet is gonna go nuts.

🎶TikToks You Can’t Miss

Now that’s living life right there

When you see the walmart stream and you work at walmart

Gerbils are something else I tell ya

Bro should not have touched that

The vibes are immaculate

That’s all for this week! See you next time. :)