The Renegade is a new product that looks to significantly lower the cost of owning a 3D-printing pen; it also aims to improve the environment by employing used plastic bottles and bags as printing material.
Renegade uses a robust and powerful extruder that includes a screw-feeder mechanism and heating system. These combine to transport, destruct, and melt the plastic tape produced by the ChupaCut plastic bottle shredder or even standard filaments. The rotating screw forces the heated plastic to move forward evenly and extrudes it from the nozzle. The molten plastic then cools down rapidly into a solid and stable spatial structure.
Renegade system is the unique ChupaCut tool which can be used to shred plastic bottles of various sizes into 3, 6, 9 or 12 mm strips. These strips can then be used as printing material for the pen. An added perk of the ChupaCut is that it comes in multiple colors and is anthropomorphized with a broad smile and large eyes.
Plastic bags and file folders can also be turned into strips by using a paper shredder. According to Renegade’s Kickstarter page, two large bottles or 12 plastic bags can replace about 25 store-bought filaments.
The pen itself features a heater and screw-feed mechanism to soften the plastic strips, allowing artists to control the release of the reclaimed plastic material where it cools back into a hardened form.
“The molten plastic then cools down rapidly into a solid and stable spatial structure,”according to the Renegade Kickstarter page. “There are practically no material limitations, and the possibilities are limited only by your imagination. Become the ultimate creator; simply plug in your Renegade and start creating in minutes.”
Renegade and ChupaCut bring you a green printing solution that enables the recycling and upcycling of household plastic waste.
