The world’s first 3D Printing pen
3Doodler, the world’s first 3D printing pen that you can hold in your hand, is now being shipped to its 30,000 earlybird Kickstarter backers.
3Doodler allows people to create 3D objects, whether freestyle 3D sketching or tracing shapes from templates to make larger architectural structures. Amazingly the 3Doodler allows you to literally draw in the air.
Since becoming one of the most successful Kickstarter projects of all time, the 3Doodler has been hotly anticipated with a waiting list that boasts some of the best-known names in architecture, art and design. But surely it can’t be that easy to use?
Daniel Cowen, 3Doodler Co-Founder, explains: “3Doodler combines the complexity of 3D printing and the simplicity of drawing to put the power of 3D creation into anyone’s hands; bringing imagination and creation even closer together.”
Just like the more expensive 3D printers on the market, 3Doodler uses both ABS and PLA plastic as the pen’s “ink”. ABS is very impact resilient and one of the most common plastics around, while PLA is a biodegradable “bioplastic” with a lower melting temperature than ABS, and very well suited to Doodling on glass, metal, or in other mixed medium creations.
By raising the pen as you Doodle, the plastic is lifted off of the page and “draws” in the air, so the creator is free to design any shape, object or model that comes to mind. 3Doodler requires only a power socket and a strand of plastic to start drawing within minutes.
The 3Doodler is set to hit retail in early 2014, will you being buying one?