What is the Best 3D Pen???

[Music] cool what's up my people it's Devin here with make anything and today is the day that a lot of you have been waiting for by far the biggest request from my subscribers has been an overview of all the 3d pens I've got or basically people wanting to know what's the best 3d pen makes sense if you want a 3d pen you want the best one of course I hate to break it to you but I'm not gonna be able to say here this is the best 3d pen because each pen has its own pros and cons and there are some things that might be more important to you and other things that you're willing to kind of let go so in this episode instead of just saying get this pen I'm gonna go through a try each one out and let you guys know what's good and what's bad about each one things like price quality the different filaments it can use you know and then based on what you care about most you can decide which pen you want so I'll go through each of my different categories one at a time with each pen in the order that I first reviewed them and then at the end we'll kind of look at a compilation so if all you're interested in are the end results just skip to the end of the video and you can see my kind of chart laid out of what's good and bad about each pen if you want to see them in action well just keep watching let's do it so first up is the 3doodler create this is one of the first pens I tried and it's still up there among my favorites at $100 it's it's just about in the middle of the price range for these pens and it's also one of the more compact pens you can get so it's nice if you're doing long doodle sessions this pen can use PLA abs or flexible material and it offers two speeds here's the filament that we use with the 3doodler create and unlike a lot of the pens that come on coils these are in rods so the rods can be good because they're a lot easier to deal with you just stick in the back of the pen and it's not dangling all around while you're trying to draw you can buy a lot of extra accessories for the 3doodler like this drawing mat they also have a power bank so that you can take it on the go as well as this nozzle set which comes with a bunch of different size and shapes nozzles that you can swap out on the 3doodler which I haven't tried yet but seems like it could be really cool so to compare my pens we're first going to draw a line on the slowest setting and then on the fastest setting so here you can see what the SLO looks like and here's a line using the fast speed next we're going to draw a cube which is good at testing how well the pen actually draws vertically as well as in the air by the way for this demonstration I'm using PLA plastic for all the pens that I have PLA plastic for to try to be more consistent so you can see how long I have to hold it up there for it to cool down and that's based on the temperature as well as on the plastic abs would actually cool a little quicker but I still prefer PLA because it stinks a lot less and it's pretty good for most things so don't judge is a pen entirely on my ability to bridge but you can see that it does a pretty good job as long as you get the right speed now if this pen does get clogged there's a little window back here at the front that you can open up and now give you access to the filament near the hot end you also might have to remove the nozzle using this little tool that comes with it so that you can push the filament out if it gets stuck inside of the pen which I've had to do a few times so that can be kind of a hassle especially since you don't want to just have this hot and fall onto your table and melt a hole in it so you might want to use a ceramic plate or something to put it on a lot of you wanted to know if you could use third-party filament with this 3doodler since it comes with these strands that are relatively expensive compared to like a spool of 3d printing filament and while my printer uses 1.75 millimetre filament this 3doodler has three millimeter rods but for you guys I ended up buying this three millimeter spool of ABS just so I could test this out and see if it'll work so obviously this comes on the spool and the 3doodler takes straight rods so whether or not this will end up jamming it is something we've got to find out I'm definitely not going to use this super messed up bit at the beginning let's just go ahead and try cutting off a piece like that and seeing if that'll work so the reason I cut off a section instead of just trying to feed the whole coil through is that the 3doodler actually rotates the filament as it's feeding through the pen so by doing a section like this hopefully it will still work out you can see exactly what I'm talking about right here as it spins around and here I am drawing a cube with that filament so it totally seems to be working of course I want to test this out a bit more but for now I'm gonna say that yes you can use three millimeter 3d printing filament in the 3doodler create as long as you cut it in two rods and you might have to be ready for it to clog a little more often since it's not a straight rod next up we've got the latest version of the scribbler pen and this one cost the same amount at a hundred dollars so it's a really close competitor to the three dealer create and while this pen looks a little bulkier it also has a lot of additional features you can choose between six speeds instead of just two and you can also adjust the temperature yourself which could be helpful if you're trying to get the parts to cool quicker you can buy a ton of different types of filament on the scribbler website from flexible wood PLA ABS metal glow-in-the-dark or you can use any one point seven five millimeter 3d printing filament as well I have to apologize here because I actually gave away the power supply for my scribbler when I had my last 3d pen giveaway and I thought I could use the power supply from my three dealer create with the scribbler since the connections fit together but the pen wasn't able to get up to temperature and it gave me an error so I actually can't perform the tests with my scribbler today but you can check out my original review and see everything about the pen there as well next up is the Creole pop and that's a $130 pen which is very different from the rest because it uses an ink that is UV cured instead of a filament but it's still a 3d pen so I thought I would include it in this review so there's the cartridge in the back and this pen actually has a built-in battery so you can charge it and then use it wirelessly which is super cool that's a lot of you mentioned in the last review this UV light that comes out here is pretty bad for your eyes so it might be wise to pick up some of these UV protecting glasses I mean they're pretty stylish anyways so here you can see the kre-o pop drawing at the slowest of its five speed settings as you can see it's pretty slow and that's so that the ink has enough exposure to that little UV light so that it actually cures and hardens while you're drawing here you can see it in the fast speed but in this case it won't actually hear that fast so you would have to go over it again with the light to harden it so here I'm using the fast-setting and you can see that after the line is done the ink isn't completely hardened yet so I just have to double-click up there and turn on the light and that'll allow it to fully cure the rest of the cube I did at the slower speed and you can see that works better for actually having it harden while you're drying and while it's pretty slow you can really draw sideways in the air which is something you can't quite do with the other pens [Music] next up is the seven tech pen which is $70 and it's basically a copy of the scribbler version to seven tech doesn't actually sell filament for its pen so you can use just about any 1.75 millimeter film it as long as it's decent quality filament now this pen has some weird quirks for example look at how slow it can draw why would you ever need to go this slow it's it's insane but luckily the speed is controlled by a slider so you can still get a pretty slow line by just speeding it up a little bit and here it is on the fast setting which you can see is ridiculously fast as well so I'll set that speed somewhere in the middle and draw this cube again still pretty fast my biggest complaint about this pen just like this scribbler is that they don't have retraction so it can end up being a little stringer than some of the other pens here's the 3doodler start it's a $50 pen which makes it the cheapest on my list today and this is a great pen if you just want something simple and straightforward it only has one speed one temperature and one type of plastic so it's very hard to go wrong with the 3doodler start so here you can see what that one speed looks like so this special formula of plastic made for the 3doodler start comes out really smooth and nicely it also takes longer to cool so you can kind of move it around after you've drawn with it but that also means it takes a lot longer to cool down as you can see with this vertical strut I'm trying to create [Music] Here I am bridging the top part of the pen and it was working really well although I kind of messed up in the end but because the plastic cools so slowly I was actually able to just grab that string and put it back into place and it worked out so it is kind of a different experience but I like it [Music] next up is the de Wang x4 pen is a little more expensive than the start and it's actually very similar it also uses a special low temperature plastic called PCL unlike the 3doodler start it actually has three speeds each with its own temperature so here's the slow speed and the fast that's with the seven tech I don't think Dewayne sells their own filament just yet but I was able to find another brand of PCL filament that seems like it would work with this pen and I'll have that in the description as with the start you can see this one also takes a pretty long time to harden those vertical lines and the plastic itself is kind of droopy but because it's low temperature it's pretty great for drawing on electronics and things like that [Music] next up is the licks and this is the most expensive pen on my list at $150 and with that price comes a very nice-looking pen so this is the smallest 3d pen you can get and it's pretty comfortable in the hand although it does get a little armed this pen has two temperatures one for PLA one for ABS as well as two speeds although as you'll see here the two speeds look pretty similar to me yeah pretty much the same right now while the licks can use PLA I didn't have any of their PLA filament so unlike the other pens I am using ABS here and as you can see it worked super nicely this is one of the cleanest cubes I made [Music] you guys also wanted to know if you could use other filament with this pen and so I tried the scribbler filament in here which ended up clogging the pen so while you might be able to get it to work I don't think it's worth the hassle it was really hard to get the filament out afterwards as well pretty frustrating I'm gonna say you don't want to use third-party filament with the lake's pen finally we've got the 3d Simo mini at $130 this is the last pen i tested and like I say in my review it's a lot more than just a 3d pen because it has soldering wood burning and other attachments as you can see here but today we're just going to judge it as a 3d pen if you want to control speed and other settings you're going to have to download the smartphone app for the 3d Simo mini and you can actually use that app to control different settings of the pen here it is printing at slow speed and at the faster speed not much to complain about here it works pretty much like a standard 3d pen [Music] alright guys there it is the eight pens that I've tested so far and I've created this handy chart that has a comparison of a bunch of different features I'll have a link to this image in the description but will quickly look over the features right now when it comes to price the 3doodler start is the lowest cost and 3doodler and 3d Simo are about tied for having the lowest filament price although the ability to use a non brand filament means that price can be a lot lower if you use 3d printer filament if having a lot of control over the speed is important to you you might want to check out the scribbler the creo pop or the 7 tech most pens have automatic temperature control based on the filament and speed you're using next to that i looked at whether or not the Pens have retraction retraction means after you draw a line the plastic is pulled back into the pen just a tiny bit and that helps create cleaner lines with less stringiness the creo pop and the three dueler start are the only pens with a built-in battery however the create and 3d Simo mini have additional power banks that you can connect and actually any of the pens that are charged via USB can be made portable just by connecting them to an external battery pack for a cell phone for example I also looked at if the hot end could be replaced so if you get a clog you'll be able to swap out the front part of the pen instead of having to get an entirely new pen so that's something you can do with the create the scribbler 7 tech pen and the de Wang and in the final column you can see the different materials that are supported by all the different pens if you want to try a lot of crazy different materials then I think the scribbler and the 3d Simo mini are your best bets alright guys well that's it for this one I hope it was helpful I know there's a lot of information here there's a lot of different pens and as I've always said they're pretty similar in the end so whichever one you end up getting you're bound to have some fun I hope you liked it until next time I'm Devon this is make anything stay inspired you

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Length: 17min 8sec (1028 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 02 2017