3D Pen

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Following on the heels of the 3D printer, 3Doodler is a crowdsourced gadget that has raised 4536% (so far) of its' initial ask to get production going on a 3D pen.

Although it's little more than a pen-shaped printer head from a 3d printer, it's got some mad uses in the worlds of Art, design, and even household repair:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQWyhezIze4]3Doodler Intro Video - YouTube[/ame]

Here's a working prototype:

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And it makes stuff like this out of the same ABS plastic strips that you feed into your 3D printer:

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inb4 Nike sues everybody who draws their Swoosh with it...
 


Cool as hell! But do I really need one? Only use I can see is making plastic 3D decor art that gets throw in the trash a week later... (IN before environmental people complain about the wasted plastic). Or wait yeah would be perfect for fixing stuff. Glueing back together torn stuff with plastic, but there's the glue-gun.. So in reality this is a tiny plastic wire glue gun..
 
Cool little thing as a Christmas present for kids or something, but that's about all I see.

Guaranteed creating a replica of something like the Eiffel Tower is infinitely more difficult than what they showed.
 
Did not one person involved in over-delivering 4436% of the funding stop and say... whoaa... wait a second... this is GLUE GUN FFS - where's my money gone?!!
 
Oh my... A thread by lukep that doesn't predict the end of the united states.

Maybe we should be worried that the end is near.
 
erifdekciw said:
Oh my... A thread by lukep that doesn't predict the end of the united states.

Maybe we should be worried that the end is near.
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Ah but you fail to see the potential of these 3d printable items. This conversation is very relevant to the tyrants in washington
 
It's not a glue gun, as it doesn't use glue, it uses a form of plastic. And unlike a glue gun it has a cooling mechanism so that it cools the plastic at the just right moment it comes out of the device, so you can create somewhat sturdy structures. It's actually pretty genius, and cool as hell if you're a gadget geek. That is why the project has receiving so much funding; the people that go on those funding sites are the right audience for something like this.

Edit:
I actually saw this a no more than 2 days ago on my FB timeline, and it was at about $300,000 in funding. Haters gonna hate.

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