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  "path": "/article/3054516/im-obsessed-with-this-3d-printed-tray-for-costco-hot-dogs.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T16:33:23.000Z",
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    "Consumer Electronics",
    "The Buck Fifty",
    "View this post on Instagram",
    "Cotillon’s Shopify store"
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  "textContent": "You’re at Costco. The food court is predictably packed, tables already overrun. You could buy the warehouse chain’s famous $1.50 hot dog + drink combo _before_ shopping—except there’s nowhere to comfortably stash it while strolling around. At least, not if you don’t have a certain special 3D printed tray.\n\nJuleon Cotillon, a fellow Bay Area local and pastry chef by day, is a 3D printing (and Costco) enthusiast who ran into this problem. But instead of awkwardly standing in a lesser traveled aisle and eating as fast as possible (hi, that’s me), he put his AutoCAD subscription and Bambu Lab P1S 3D to work and created The Buck Fifty.\n\n>  View this post on Instagram \n\nThis custom 3D-printed tray attaches to the back of a Costco shopping cart’s baby seat, jutting into the space where a toddler would normally sit. A cupholder sits to the right, while the hot dog lies comfortably on a flat platform on the left. Given how slow navigating a Costco with a cart can be, this potentially precarious perch should keep your snack (or early/backup meal) safe enough. Plus, let’s be real—that dog will be gone before you even finish strolling down a main aisle.\n\nYou can buy the original version for $19.69 from Cotillon’s Shopify store, which is now taking pre-orders after massive interest from excited Instagram shoppers. But any Costco fanatics who double as AutoCAD + 3D printer whizzes could take this as inspiration for their own custom versions. (I’m dreaming of one with a Kirkland logo, as well as variations with lettering in Chinese or Japanese.)\n\nI already plan to put in a pre-order as a gift for a friend, but you know, this project may finally motivate me to experiment with 3D printing at last. And think of someone in my network with an AutoCAD subscription I could barter with.",
  "title": "I’m obsessed with this 3D-printed tray for Costco hot dogs"
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