3D Printers and Pens

Technology: 3D Printers and 3D Pens are beyond incredible. Make virtually anything you want and make it 3D. Imagine it, design it, and make it with no middle man. Want to make a replica of the White House? Either design it yourself using Google SketchUp, or download someone else's plan off of the website thingiverse, send it to your Makertbot 3D Printer and watch it appear before your eyes between 45minutes and a few hours. The 3D Pen has even more freedom in that it requires no plans and you are creating your design with your own hands. Watch quick videos of both technologies below:


Makerbot 3D Printer:

3Doodler Pen:

Classroom Use: As for using these in the classroom, the grand idea is having a classroom set of iPads with 123D Sculpt and Google SketchUp that the whole class can use at once to create 3D designs that they will then print to one of the 10 printers in the classroom. Students can have basic requirements (create a building, design a monument) that they fulfill with their own designs and then print. As for the Pens... students can fulfill any number of project requirements through drawing three dimensionally!