{"id":10034,"date":"2013-11-09T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10034"},"modified":"2013-11-09T07:52:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T12:52:06","slug":"making-3d-models-with-a-pen-instantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/making-3d-models-with-a-pen-instantly\/","title":{"rendered":"Making 3D Models With A Pen Instantly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10035\" alt=\"3doodler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/3doodler.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is exactly as cool as it sounds. A pen that releases and instantly dries plastic, to allow 3D drawings in moments, the brainchild of Daniel Cowen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A couple of inventors got together to develop toys using 3D printing. One day the printer made a mistake, and the inventor grumbled &#8216;if only I could pick up the extruder and touch up my model&#8217;. An idea was born.<\/li>\n<li>The idea was put on kickstarter, and raised $2.34 million in pre-orders<\/li>\n<li>The pen is simple to use with no software involved. Plug it in and &#8216;sketch&#8217; away<\/li>\n<li>Looking at the models that have been done, this isn&#8217;t going to be used as a replacement manufacturing technique for selling products. But what it might be is an easy way to demonstrate models or ideas at meetings, a really cool visual aid in presentations, or a way to fix breakages.<\/li>\n<li>Or, Daniel Cowen has been approached by a school for the blind wanting to use the pens to write in Braille.<\/li>\n<li>Reviewer Signe Brewster describes the pen as being &#8216;noisy, smelly and sometimes difficult to control. But it is simple and addicting to use&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2013-10\/19\/daniel-cowen\">here<\/a> is to a video on Wired with Cowen talking about his invention, which is at the pre-order stage. Skip to (2:20) to see a demonstration of the pen. For the full article of Signe Brewster&#8217;s review over at Gigaom, click <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/10\/29\/hands-on-with-the-3doodler-3d-printing-pen-its-lots-of-fun-but-poorly-designed\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2013-10\/19\/daniel-cowen\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is exactly as cool as it sounds. A pen that releases and instantly dries plastic, to allow 3D drawings in moments, the brainchild of Daniel Cowen: A couple of inventors got together to develop toys using 3D printing. One day the printer made a mistake, and the inventor grumbled &#8216;if only I could pick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/3doodler.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10038,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions\/10038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}