Shortly after roads were successfully printed using similar technologies to make an enduring product, WobbleWorks LLC. began a Kickstarter campaign for their inexpensive 3-D printer product the 3Doodler pen, and they are over $1.75 million so far!
3-D printers that replace all other manufacturing factories to make car parts and even roads may well revolutionize the future of industry.
In this case, the 3Doodler might be part of an artist’s revolution. It is a device similar in size and function to a solder stick or a hot glue gun. The primary difference is that the 3-D plastic tech heats a fast drying stick of plastic into a moldable piece that can be shaped into whatever the drawer wants.
Tracing a layout on paper, for instance, can make model walls of the Eifel Tower and then after putting four of the matching plastics together form a scale 3-D mockup structure of the famous French symbol.
The 3Doodler uses 3mm ABS or PLA plastic as its “ink” like a 3D printer, though it has to be used similarly to how a hot glue gun runs.
The artist must work with a slight delay as the plastic cools, and though the ABS ink itself is cool upon spitting out of the gun, the tip can get to over two hundred degrees Celsius effectively eliminating any chance of kids ever being allowed to play with this (yes, mom, I hear you).
The upsides are, for a seventy-five dollar donation, the 3Doodler and a bunch of different colored ABS packs can be yours to begin the modern sculpture process with the long-lasting (possibly forever lasting) plastic. Who doesn’t imagine waving a Harry Potter wand to make their dreams form real objects in the air?
Shooting out fast-drying plastic with a lethally hot tip might compromise some families with siblings, but creative renderers can make use of thirty-dollar 1kg spools of ABS that yield 360-370 feet of cartoon creating fun.
