Hi everybody. This is Greg, the Styrofoam head.
He'll be working with us a little bit today
In cooperation with this 3D pen we're going to be trying out
Sent to me by the people at... how is this pronounced? Di-KAH-lay?
It's by a trade supply in China and, as you can tell, it's really, very cute.
This thing has little paw prints on it.
It's got cute little eyes, cute little whiskers,
ears, and, of course, a cute little nose that you can boop if you want to.
I've done a 3D pen printing video before.
And this one, this pen works pretty much the same.
You can put PLA or ABS fiber in it.
And... basically I think the main difference between those two is
it needs slightly different temperatures for it to work.
And then you can also choose the speed with it
And when you, like, when you up the speed,
you can choose, like, low, medium or high.
Personally, I had it on high the whole time.
Ah... it just gets a little bit hotter, so that
it can pump this weird, colorful, gooey stuff out a little bit quicker.
But the cool thing about this stuff is --I don't know if you have used it--
It is fun to mess around with. It can get a little bit frustrating
just because it's so different than anything
that any of us have used before.
It's just on.
It can be a little bit frustrating, but you'll get the hang of it fast.
It's gooey at first when it's hot, but then, as it cools down--
it cools down really quick, and then it gets,
it gets hard
And thankfully it's not brittle. It's actually pretty flexible, and, as you can see here, this...
I'm making a mask today, on Greg's face.
Greg is a real trooper, and even though
he's made of Styrofoam, and it was burning and melting his face,
he didn't flinch or complain at all.
And I really appreciate that about Greg.
I used to have little burn piles in my backyard,
and the only thing my mom didn't let me put in those piles--
I would like burn cardboard, leaves and stuff--
and the only thing my mom didn't let me put in those piles of leaves and stuff was Styrofoam
So I was a little bit worried about me melting the--
the Styrofoam melted a little bit under the heat of the fillament coming out of these, so...
I didn't get any weird headaches, but
y'know, maybe it will catch up with me in a few years
if I keep going down this dangerous path.
Anyways, you can get a bunch of different colored filaments for this.
In the past, when I was playing with a 3D pen, I was just using very basic--
I had like-- I think I have a big spool of white filament, a big spool of the black.
But with this pen I got a
bunch of different colors-- different shades of those colors
and I was excited to use them for this mask
Whatever it ended up looking like. I can't tell if it was like
a clown...
y'know, like something a clown would wear to go into battle,
but also kind of... Mayan?
Incan?
Incandescent. Glowy.
A couple of these I shown my black light on and some of these colors like
the green and the yellow did glow under the blacklight
so maybe I will toy with that later. We'll see.
I am a little bit on a bit of a blacklight
thing right now. But, but not too much.
I don't want to wear that out.
If you're looking for a review of this, and you're looking for a
3D pen, this one
obviously is geared towards children, and it
works pretty good towards children. Just make sure they know
the tip of it does get pretty hot. And the stuff right when it
comes out of there-- by the stuff I mean the filament--
right when it comes out of there it's pretty hot.
But if you don't touch that, I mean, if you're kid
is old enough to use, like, a hot glue gun
they can probably use this.
And, y'know, trust your kids. Kids are smart, smarter than we think they are.
They can do it. Obviously this is shaped like a cat
so your kid will love it. And it has, like, a--
it goes to sleep automatically after a little while so you
probably
won't burn your house down like
some other models of pens you could just leave them on forever.
They do cool down a little bit, but I think this one will even turn off all the way.
These pens use the same kind of filament that
goes in 3D printers
and so basically, when you use these
you become a human 3D printer
except we're a little bit
less accurate, but a little bit more able
to adjust on-the-fly
to changes in situations and attitudes
and altitudes and weather conditions and
and if you wanna change what you're doing halfway through
y'know you're doin', you're drawing an eagle
y'know, a lot of people make eagles or
trees. You can switch from a tree to an eagle halfway through
and you'll have a treeagle.
That's a--
We see that all the time.
In "the biz," as we call it. I reck on if you had enough time
and patience and determination
you could make a whole suit of armor
out of this stuff. A mannequin would help with that.
The only this is you do wanna make sure the mannequin is roughly the same
proportions as you. Although, this stuff is
pretty flexible. I made this on Greg's head here.
He-- his face is not
exactly the same size as mine
but I was still able to
like, it's flexible. I was able to squeeze it onto my face
Afterwards, I tried that sucker on.
And I felt... regal. And I felt powerful.
And empowered. And I felt like I could do anything
after I put that mask on.
A colorful creation that I created out of thin air.
It was amazing.
It was exhilarating.
I would do it again.
In a second... or a year.
I mean, I've got so many projects. I've got so many pr-- I've got--
I'm splintered.
Divided.
We'll see. We'll see what I get up to. Y'all try it out, though.
You all do any of these 3D creations?
Or any other drawings? Feel free to--
even if you're making like a quilt
or a flan
or a
y'know if your yard got struck by lightening
that's
if your yard gets struck by lightening and it makes a cool pattern
in the grass or something, I'll count that as your art, okay?
I credit you with that. Tweet it at me. I wanna see it.
Alright.
I'll, like, "heart" it. And maybe comment.
Okay. See you guys later.
[whispers] Goodbye.
Goodbye.
