Friday, May 2, 2014

3-D Doodling!

OK, check out this neat link!

Ever wanted to doodle in 3-D?!  You know you want to try it!  Here is one of the latest 3-D printing pens... That's right, a printing pen.  Think of the possibilities...

The commercial video included on this page is a little overly-dramatic, but if you skip to the middle, it shows you how the pen works (they start the demonstration at 1:00). It looks kind of like a high-tech hot glue gun (yes, I'm sure it's slightly more complicated than that!)--you feed a thin rod of plastic material into the top, and through some sort of heating or other secret technology, it extrudes a thin, pliable "ink" out of the pen nib as you draw.  There are some fun, repeated-pattern examples included on the website--I love the figure drawing...

It looks like this pen was originally started as a Kickstarter, and surpassed its goal.  So maybe we'll see it on the market soon...

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