The Shapeways Blog: 3D Printing News & Innovation
Entries from July 2010
Saturday, July 31. 2010
Crocodile Clip by Noodles
Thursday, July 29. 2010
Musical Hacks & 3D Printing
Awaiting the 3D Printing & DIY Musical Instrument Crossover?
We are starting to see some cool Arduino casings from the likes of I Heart Engineering and potentiometer knobs from Jarno but when will we start to see DIY musical instruments start to creep into the Shapeways shops to create Music from Outer Space?
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20 Material Options for 3D Printing with Shapeways
for 3D Printing based on 9 base materials.
We are always on the lookout for new materials like the Very High Detail Wax and will keep you posted of anything else we are experimenting with. Likewise, please let us know if you find any new materials or processes you would like for us to include?
Monday, July 26. 2010
White Strong and Suuuuper Flexible.
Ok, so it's not yet another new material.
We are exploring novel ways to use the White Strong & Flexible material.
We started calling them digi-fabrics here at the office. The first 2 samples really feel like fabric and rubber in the way they behave. We'll be demoing these samples at SIGGRAPH, but also wanted to share with the rest of the community not attending the event.
We have made them available as download and put them up for sale, so have fun.
And while I'm sharing things you'll see from us at SIGGRAPH, here's another one we've been getting a lot of requests for.
Little sample kit with our wide material selection. We're still figuring out the details on how to offer it to you, but if you have comments or suggestions, let us know.
Sunday, July 25. 2010
Final Week of Draw Your Own Earrings Sweepstakes
Get your entries in now.....
It is the final week of the Draw Your Own Earrings Sweepstakes and your chance to share in one of 1000 prizes. If you have already entered get your mother, brother, sister, cousin, hairdresser, daughter, parole officer or pizza delivery boy to sketch their own design and enter for their chance to win too. We already have some great entries but with so many prizes to give away every entrant is bound to win something.
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Saturday, July 24. 2010
Inkjet Printer to 3D Printer Hack.
DIY 3D printer hack.... The first HP 3D Printer.
Sweet product hack & demo of manually printing simple 3D objects using an old HP 540 inkjet printer by Scorch1974. Even smaller than a pizza oven
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Friday, July 16. 2010
Overheard on Twitter
Whilst keeping an eye on the Shapeways Twitter stream, I often notice little exchanges that may be of interest to Shapeways users like the one below. It shows how Twitter can be used to expose and sell your 3D printed models on Shapeways.
@cialina http://twitpic.com/8a19n - Please please please tel me where you got this!! My life would actualy be compete if I had one.
@alice_morrissey cant buy it anywhere. designed it in engineering at school. had it 3D printed. only 2 were made.
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Thursday, July 15. 2010
T-Splines Design Contest : Model your organic designs to win
T-Splines, Inc.'s Model your organic designs in CAD Contest is designed to promote the creation of new and innovative 3D content using T-Splines, or using T-Splines in combination with other software.
Prizes valued at over $2600 include 3 iPads, software and 3D printing from Shapeways.
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Wednesday, July 14. 2010
YouTube Now Embedable in Your Shapeways Shop
You can now embed Youtube links into the pages of your Shapeways shop so you can show a video of your product in use, an animation, assembly instructions or a simple rotation of the product to help communicate your designs. Put a link on your Youtube page back to your shop to drive sales. Easy.
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Friday, July 9. 2010
Thursday, July 8. 2010
20 Amazing Examples of 3D Printed Earrings
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Wednesday, July 7. 2010
Shapeways Live Wednesday July 7th, 8PM CET
A quick reminder: tonight I'll be hosting Shapeways Live at 8PM Amsterdam time (click here to see what time that is for you). I'll be talking about combinatory manufacturing, glass (I have some cool samples to show you), our new packaging material and more.
During our last Live cast we found out that the chat required people to register at the UStream site. I've tried to make it easier by creating a dedicated Live page with integrated chatbox - without registration:
http://www.shapeways.com/community/live
Personally, I always forget to attend these events although I really DO intend to, so I added a 30-minutes email reminder service thingamajig to the page. Have a good day, and see you tonight! Bart PS: If you can't make it, I'll make sure the show is recorded and published on the site tomorrow.
New packaging!
For the coming two months we are testing our new packaging. From now on all the products will come in a special packaging.
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Gold Plated Stainless Steel is Back
Due to the positive feedback and fantastic models, Shapeways has decided to reintroduce Gold Plated Stainless Steel as a permanent materials option for the Shapeways community.
With this reintroduction there is a change to the pricing from a flat rate with start up, to a stepped, non-linear pricing plan whereby the larger the volume the better the rate. Larger models are comparatively cheaper for us to produce so we would like to pass on that saving and encourage users create models of greater volume.
During the initial introductory period Shapeways did not cover its costs on the Gold Plated 3D printing and processing, especially with the smaller parts, so for Shapeways to remain viable we have introduced a new pricing structure for Gold Plated Stainless Steel.
So here is how it works:
0cm³ < to ≤1cm³ = Min. price $20
1cm³ < to ≤ 5cm³ = $11/cm³
5cm³ < to ≤ 10cm³ = $10/cm³
> 10cm³ = $9/cm³
With no initial start up cost.
More information on the Gold Plated Stainless Steel Material Page.
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