A 3D-printing pen
February 25, 2013
(Credit: WobbleWorks)
Have you ever wished you could just draw a object in the air and have it magically printed out?
WoobbleWorks has created 3Doodler (a Kickstarter project), the world’s first “3D printing pen” to do just that.
As you draw, it extrudes ABS plastic (the material used by many 3D printers) in the air or on surfaces — no software or computers required.
The 3Doodler pen weighs less than 200 grams or 7 ounces. Each 3Doodler will come with enough strands of plastic to print approximately 11 ft of material.
(Credit: WobbleWorks)
Comments (19)
by dorothy
One small step for 3D printing, a huge leap for making it mainstream. I can see schools eating this right up. It’s obviously not the most advanced 3D printer, but whatever it takes to get 3D printing into the peoples eyes.
by GAlex
Help to make this in China?
Why not in US?
by CB
Would be SUPER to have the production here is the USA….
by Jon Hol
How much do the refillable ABS plastic tubes cost?
by Bri
This looks like a lot of fun! It can’t be that expensive a product. I’m sure it will do well. I can think of things that I would do with it. I’m curious as to the durability of the plastic. What it’s strength characteristics are and how it degrades. Is the plastic toxic? Is it dishwasher safe. What temperature does it melt at. If you left it in a hot car would it become a pile of goo?
by SmartAndSober
It would be great if this can be combined with the “Z-Space” technology.
http://zspace.com/
by Tony
More plastic for the environment. I love the idea, but can’t endorse it since it’ll just add more plastic waste to our eco systems.
by eldras
Depends of what additives can do. 3D printers are precursors to Nano and then Atomic assemblers that could in theory draw waste from the atmosphere and convert it.
by Paul Benjou
This is NOT 3D. It’s a fancy glue gun.
by Editor
Would you settle for 2.5D? :)
by DukeD1989
Fancy glue gun? Yes. But I am failing to see how the images are not 3D…
by Paul in Vancouver
Calling it “fancy glue pen” would not raise a lot of funds on kickstarter, but call it a 3D pen and it becomes revolutionary device that will “change manufacturing.” These are the semantics of marketing strategy.
by SmartAndSober
Do you live in Vancouver, Canada?
The city where the headquarter of D-Wave Systems (World’s First Quantum Computer Comany) locates?
by alvaro
A new tool for limitness minds !
by Editor
Can 3D graffiti be far behind?
by asiwel
I think, just by looking around … and not only just at some public art and architecture, that “3D graffiti” appears to be alive and well … as both a present and a historical “artefactual” process.
by Gorden Russell
If you look fast, you might see a power cord attached to this new gadgetron. So a graffiti artist will need to lug along a power source or a long extension cord. But if somebody had the idea to do all that, he would already be vandalizing public walls with a glue gun.
by SmartAndSober
The effects look great.
I wonder how much more can this “3D Printing Pen” do when it’s computerized.
BTW, “3D graffiti” already exists
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/absolutely-stunning-3d-street-art-paintings/
by asiwel
I just had to bookmark that webpage. Fantastic! I have seen one or two of these street drawings before, I think, but not 50! Wow. Thanks.