If you have your finger on the pulse of all things related to design, 3D printing and the Future of Stuff, like to share your passion online with words and beautiful, beautiful pictures, then Shapeways needs you !!!

The Shapeways community is growing incredibly fast and we need to keep everyone up to date with the latest news surrounding such an ever expanding space.  If you are interested in writing for the Shapeways blog send an email to duann (at) shapeways.com with a little about yourself, your education, your experience, links to your online presence along with why you want to join the Shapeways blogging team. 

If words and pictures are not your thing but you still want to be part of the future of stuff take a look at our jobs page for more opportunities.

Join us..... The future is an awesome place....

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The future of bricklaying. Quadcopters.

A project by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d'Andrea in cooperation with ETH Zurich  

Flight Assembled Architecture/Architectures volantes from FRAC Centre on Vimeo.

As Shapeways prepares for an exhibition of 3D Printed products to be held at Material Connexion in New York we were lucky to have Chris Hardy allow us to 3D print his Cesca Chair interpretation to include in the show.

One of the most popular gaming sites on the internet Curse is offering a massive Minecraft 3D print giveaway for it's premium members. One lucky winner will receive a free 3D Print of their favorite Minecraft model for up to a $630 value. Five runner-ups will be chosen and each one will receive a $50 gift certificate to Shapeways, enough to print a character or a small structure.

Join to win. 

The team at Curve Creative has shared the unboxing of the very popular Nanolet 3D printed iPod Nano Bracelet.

Nothing fills our hearts with joy quite like seeing an 'unboxing video' on YouTube. Whenever 'unboxings' are posted the videos spread across the office from screen to screen as the team at Shapeways gets a peek into the other side of the Shapeways experience.  Thanks to Ben, Alan and Paget at Curve Creative for sharing, we look forward to seeing many more.

If anyone else has an 'unboxing' video to share please tweet it @shapeways to ensure we see it.  Thanks

3D Printed Ceramics is starting to look more colorful at Shapeways. Which is your favorite color and what colors would you like to start 3D printing your ceramics designs in?

Have you got any cool images to share?

The Pan-NO-Head by BVR which (if I read this correctly) helps to make it possible to do a panoramic print with a digital camera and an 8mm fish eye lens.  

The description includes a series of letters (npp/lpp/osp/GR) that may mean more to 'pano-heads' then it does to me but you can check out the process and the interactive images on the Buffalovr site.

Tinkercad have made some advances in their quest to make 3D printing easy with their latest release of their browser based 3D modeling software.

The latest iteration of the free software includes more complex base geometry, letters, numbers and symbols to make it easier to personalize and 3D print a design.

Minecraft forums' interviewer Sacheverell has posted a video interview on with Eric Haines of MineWays fame. For any Minecraft fans it is a great intro into how and why he has made it easier for you to export your worlds for real with 3D printing. For Shapeways fans it is an inspiring story to see a Shapeways community member be so generous to make a bridge to the Minecraft community, to help let them make amazing stuff with 3D printing.

Eric also give a Shout Out to the MineToys crew, such a gentleman.

Here at Shapeways we can see the popularity of each of the materials we offer for 3D printing via the volume produced but we would love to know what is YOUR personal favorite material and why?

Personally I am falling in love with some of the new materials we have been experimenting such as the Squishy Material and other secret(ish) ones, but what is your favorite and how could we improve it? 

The most empowering aspect of Shapeways for designers is being able to sell your 3D printed products in your Shapeways shop and receive a passive income.  Once you have your Shapeways shop and product pages properly set up, you do not need to do anything else except promote your products and Shapeways does the rest.

We do try and help promote products on our blog, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets as well as on our newsletters, product features and the Shapeways home page. 

For us to help you promote your products we need you to prepare your Shapeways shop and product pages with clear photographs, descriptions and ensure you let us know about them in Feature This or It Arrived.

When we do feature products on the Shapeways home page the products typically see a spike in traffic with a relative sales increase so it is well worth ensuring your products are properly documented. Above you can see an example of a product page typical traffic with a spike once featured.