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3-D Printing Pen Can Draw In the Air
Several readers sent word of a new addition to the 3-D printing industry. Most 3-D printers are roughly the size of regular printers, and require design files on the computer to guide the extruder. Now there's a much smaller and much simpler alternative: the 3Doodler pen, which lets you draw 3-D objects by hand. The people making the pen set up a Kickstarter project yesterday with a $30,000 goal. They reached that within hours, and now have pledges exceeding $800,000. "The 3Doodler pen is 180mm by 24mm. The pen weighs less than 200 grams or 7 ounces (the weight of a typical apple), although the exact weight will depend on the final shell specifications once in production. And we are using a universal power supply, so provided you have the correct adapter for your country, 3Doodler will work just fine on 110v or 240v. ... While the plastic extruded from 3Doodler is safe to touch once it has left the pen, the pen itself has a metal tip that can get as hot as 270C." The pen uses the same ABS/PLA plastic as most 3-D printers, and they're planning to host stencil designs on their website so that users have patterns to sketch from.
All that for a hot glue gun?
so it's basically a glue gun that squirts out colored glue.
.... that the very first thing I thought of when I read the headline was spiderman's webshooters.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Somebody should take a few of these up to the space station.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Can we go a week without some new 3d printing story?
While 3-D printing may not be of interest for you, I'm considering buying a 3-D printer, maybe this, maybe next year.
Reason? I'm building RC models. Ships, cars, planes.
Some scale, some just fun models. Point is, you need some small scale lifeboat, landing gear, whatever and can't find it from usual manufacturers?
Simple, now just print it. Sure, it will not be cheap, but that kind of hobby was never cheap anyway.
There are fewer illiterates than people who can't read.
All examples are drawing on a flat surface then upending the design to show it is '3D' and or connect the surface details.
This is achievable with a hot glue gun on a no-stick surface, ABS feed simply has more recognition in the 3D printing community.
Surely this goes totally against the main advantage of 3D printing - create a complex shape in CAD and click print - no crafting knowledge/skill necessary! You get accuracy and get to go do other stuff while your creation is being printed.
This just looks like.... hassle.
Should be "3-D Printing Pen Can Spray Molten Plastic".
*ahem* How do you keep it up?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
I agree. Every week Slashdot should randomly pick one topic for which all stories are ignored. No exceptions. This way, everyone who dislikes a particular topic can be satisfied knowing that at some point, for some week, those stories will be ignored because they don't like them.
It won't do a damn bit of good, but what the hey!
Just what we need, more plastic Eiffel Towers.
Us old timers used to play with something similar called a spin welder. Not exactly plastic extrusion but not that far off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiACyulRE78
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credit? like
last year
http://makibox.com/blogpost/items/makibox_smooth_print_public_demo_and_scribble
3 years ago
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4156
but hey, 3doodler is patent pending!
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
If you don't already know this: you should consider the resolution you need pretty carefully. If you're printing stuff for 1:48 or larger models, an extrusion-based 3d printer will probably do okay for you and they're not too expensive: some exist under $500. But if you're working with smaller scales than that, you're likely to need some sort of photolithography setup and those are expensive to buy and surprisingly expensive to run because of the raw materials cost; it's hard to justify buying one for yourself compared to making the models and having shapeways.com actually print them.
But if you're working larger-scale stuff, it's amazing how much use you can get from a cheap extrusion printer; once you have one, you start using it for scads of other things you never thought about doing previously.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
Sure it will print "in the air" as long as the object printed is supported by something else. Take a look at the examples. They are all standing on something. To me drawing in the air means having no support. Why is the accurate description of "3D printing sculpture by hand" not good enough?
Tie this pen to a robotic arm to control the movement of the tip very precise. Also control the speed of travel and may be bead size. May be tie three or four such pens oozing different materials. That contraption is the equivalent of rendering images using scalable vector graphics instead of raster scanning!. If we adjust the temperature and material properties, and some kind of active cooling we could create very strong wire frames. May be these wire frames could form the skeleton with some kind of charge to accrete charge particles to acquire thickness, color and other surface properties. The possibilities are endless.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
...and use some sofware to replay it on a conventional 3d printer. In this way you could mass produce your "sketches" as "prints". You could also lay out models by sketching in air, import the "sketch" to your modeling program to refine it, then print a finished piece.
I don't get the hype on this. It's not a 3D printer, it's a plastic extruder. We've had them for as long as we've had plastic.
Welcome to Slashdot, where all technology is considered final with the first proof-of-concept demo. All further refinements to cooling, structure, manufacturing, efficiency, and/or any other limitation of the prototype system are completely obvious and not worthy of any praise.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Why not just let people who don't like a topic/post/story not click on it? I mean its not like you are made to read every front page story now is it.
If information wants to be free, why does my internet connection cost so much?
> Welcome to Slashdot, where all technology is considered final with the first proof-of-concept demo.
And where all technology is considered new even if others were doing it years ago.
Also FatPhil on SoylentNews, id 863
Seriously couldn't we just draw some of these here? With factory automation and all why isn't it feasible to make these at home? I always look for made in Canada/USA labels.
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