With Creopop, 3D Drawing Is Cool, Messy Fun

Creopop’s unusual photo-polymer 3D drawing pen is many months from commercial release — but in the relatively brief time I spent using the prototypes, I was smitten

The rather large pen weighs 113 grams or just under 4 oz. It stands out among existing 3D drawing (some mistakenly call them “printing”) tools. This uses neither heat nor plastics to create 3D objects that can stand on their own

Instead, the Creopop pen (from Creopop the company) employs a chemical reaction to harden its "ink," which is actually a gel-like polymer.

Despite the complex chemical reaction happening right before your eyes, the process is simple. Inside the pen is a syringe filled with photopolymer gel. A motor inside the pen forces the gel out of a nozzle, plunger style Read more...