3d printer in a pen (found on kickstarter)

[Tomek]

Seems like quite a cool thing, what do you guys think?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1351910088/3doodler-the-worlds-first-3d-printing-pen

[Peter "Sci" Turpin]

It's cute, though a little concerned when the say "patent pending" on
the heating/cooling unit considering something like this was on
hack-a-day last year using a stock makerbot print-head with a trigger.
Okay they may have a new print-head design of their own, but I can't
shake the worry it probably still builds on open-source origins.

[Big Will]

Saw an article on this today, their secret is that they have a fan in the tip to cool the plastic faster.

[Peter "Sci" Turpin]

That's concerning if that's what they're patenting.

On 19/02/2013 21:09, Big Will wrote:
> Saw an article on this today, their secret is that they have a fan
> in the tip to cool the plastic faster.
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[Martin G4GRS]

On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:59:59 PM UTC, Tomek wrote:

Seems like quite a cool thing, what do you guys think?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1351910088/3doodler-the-worlds-first-3d-printing-pen

Also featured on "The Register"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/19/3doodler_3d_pen/

[Benjamin Blundell]

Its a great piece of design I think - I reckon it'll be a lot of fun but its times like this where I wonder if an ABS recycling procedure/machine will be needed. Doodles on paper are one thing... 3D ones are another. I can see it taking off though.

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[Akki]

I call Emperor's New Clothes. It produces a heap of plastic squiggles. You've taken out the precision which makes 3d printing arguable useful. You've got a really crappy glue gun that spews out ABS plastic. Well done. I am seriously shocked and appalled by the examples they give and really do not understand why people are cooing and ahhing over this heap of crap.

~Akki

[Filthy hipster scum]

going to design a kickstarter to turn pen into feasible 3D printer, design a rig, anyone else want in on the project?

[Kimball Johnson]

I was interested, but then realised the pen's extruder only has two
speeds, so i'm not convinced it will produce decent results :(

Kimball

On 21 February 2013 10:19, Filthy hipster scum

<aether....@gmail.com> wrote:
> going to design a kickstarter to turn pen into feasible 3D printer, design a
> rig, anyone else want in on the project?
>

[Mike Harrison]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:21:36 +0000, you wrote:

>I was interested, but then realised the pen's extruder only has two
>speeds, so i'm not convinced it will produce decent results :(

Might be interesting to add an accelerometer so it auto-adjusts speed according to hand speed

[tom]

or you could move your hand slower

[Filthy hipster scum]

or buy a proper printer