3D Printing in Sugar. Big, DIY, and on the cheap. 2006 — 2009. The CandyFab 4000, 5000, and 6000 were early DIY 3D printers, built as hobby projects in the years 2007, 2008, and 2009, respectively, by Windell Oskay and Lenore Edman of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. CandyFab machines were able to print very large objects out of pure sugar, very inexpensively, by melting sugar grains together with