Friday, July 15, 2016
3D-printing pen turns bottles and bags into statues and spaceships
www.gizmag.com: 3D-printing pens change plastic filaments into a gel that hardens when it hits the air, allowing users to create sculptures freehand. A new company thinks that using all that plastic is expensive and wasteful, and is aiming to create a new kind of 3D pen that does its thing using old plastic bottles, bags and even folders. It's called the Renegade and it's seeking backers on Kickstarter now.
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I’ve heard about a cheaper version of this at dollar stores. I didn’t know that there was a more advanced version, though. I guess it’s similar to a hot glue gun or a 3D printer. It’s really interesting that the world is coming up with things like this. Now we can create things (probably not durable things) instead of going to buy them. You still have to buy the supplies, but it’s fairly cheap. I’ve even heard of 3D printing food. I wouldn’t believe that it’s high quality food, but it’s food nonetheless. This reminds me of the new virtual 3D paint pen that’s all over facebook. It’s this pen where you put one of those virtual masks on, and you have a paintbrush and you can paint in 3D. Of course, this pen isn’t virtual, but it hardens really quickly and you have a 3D drawing. I guess eventually this could be carried over into the props department as another way of creating said props.
I do enjoy the handheld and human nature of the 3D printing pens, but they seem to me to not make sense as products. The main benefit of 3D printing is that It can make almost any shape given enough time in an incredibly precise way. With the pens, it takes a precision Instrument and makes it a rough one. Of course there is a place for this, but I don't understand the benefit of using 3D printing materials for this purpose when I could make something to the same level of accuracy from something else. However, I do like that it is 3D printing technology that is highly accessible, I just don't see the overall point when a tool designed for precision work is essentially dumbed down to make things that are less precise.
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