Hi Shapeways fans,

Mixup 5x5x5 is a twisty puzzle where many more pieces can swap place than one would expect. The puzzle has 262 pieces, of which 66 inter-swappable "squares" and 72 inter-swappable "spacers" between them. Each "square" can be in any of its four orientations. The name of this puzzle is ambiguous, as there are 9 pieces in a row at the edges. Still, the base puzzle is a 5x5x5. For the specialists: this puzzle jumbles and it is fudged.

Watch the YouTube video.
Buy the puzzle at my Shapeways Shop.
Read more at the Twisty Puzzles Forum.
Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

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[Updated on: Sat, 12 March 2011 11:55 UTC]

Jupp - here it is the first Ring
a little be polished
- with an olivin stone -
not yet embedded -
but i will do it the next time

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I'm very excited because I've just got the delivery of the prototype of a new model I've set up. I already set up a co-creator to 3D print a photo as a halftone grid but for this new one I wanted to see if I could have two photos in one model.

It uses the same principle as an aperture grille CRT monitor.



The photos are stored as rods of varying length, the two photos are interleaved side-by-side but the grille in front hides one of the sets of rods when you look from one side. As you move to the other side the other photo is revealed.

The photos don't really show the effect that well so I've put a video on YouTube

The model is set up in Processing so I should be able to make a co-creator soon...

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Well, my first set of cufflinks have arrived. I ordered them to test the design and size and to make sure they operated as cufflinks.

I have to say that they work rather well (I am wearing them at the moment).

I also have a set of Stainless Steel cufflinks ordered, so I can see any differences in detail/shrikage etc

I have attached 3 images.

As worn, displayed on a table and my initial design.

The only "issue" I see, is that the text which was fairly thin writing on the button section of the cufflink is not visible. That is due to the printing resolution currently available, so is to be expected.

Over all, I am really impressed.

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[Updated on: Wed, 23 February 2011 16:35 UTC]

Just arrived and still a bit hot, I am presenting another belt holder design. The product is printed in bronze infused stainless steel and is suitable for belts measuring 38mm by 3mm. Other dimensions can be made upon request.

See the product page for more info

I don't have a photo of this particular design in use, so in case you missed the earlier design and wonder what it is for, you can find it here

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Hi Shapeways fans,

Artistic Cube is a hollow Master Skewb. Half of the pieces are solid, whereas the other half can be looked through. The results is a playful puzzle with some windows to its hollow core.

Watch the YouTube video.
Buy the puzzle at my Shapeways Shop.
Read more at the Twisty Puzzles Forum.
Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

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Yep, they are here, and I'm really happy with them again.
Printed in WSF, with very thin walls & small details.
They are both again i 2mm/ft scale.

CRystaL MaZE, walk through Glass maze.
Measures 78mm Wide, 24mm Deep & 30mm High.
It is awaiting a Black Plasitcard roof, some transparent plastic "Glass" & some LED's on the top, there are 2 thin channels on the back of the model to fit the wires through. I'l update when Painted/Lit.


Top Spin, based on the HO Scale (4mm/ft) Faller model kit.
Measures 105mm Wide, 72mm Deep & 60mm High. There are no restraints, as it is not possible to model/print them in this scale.
And both together, the Maze is Dwarfed by the Top Spin!


There will be more, some time in the future, but that is it for a while.
Thanks for looking,
Tom.

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Hi everybody!

I got this a few weeks ago. It is based on the same principle as my Secret Message Pendant.
It appears to be a regular pendant depicting the initial letter of the wearers name but when viewed from the side, it reveals the full name of the initial letter.
I ordered this for my wife Irene (EIPHNH in Greek) and she liked it a lot

You can find my Hidden Name Pendant here.

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A pendant that I designed to give it that hammered-metal look. This one has had post-work with Dremel polishing.

Pendant Here

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For the Surfer Dude (or Beach Bunny ) in all of us, this surfboard with a shark bite out of it is, perhaps, a metaphor for life: Have fun but watch out for the sharks!

Pendant Here

6cms long and in Alumide....

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I had a custom request for a pendant with a police officer's badge number on it...

Stainless steel with some post-work polishing the raised surfaces with a Dremel.

Pendant Here

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Hi Shapeways fans,

Over The Top is a world-record 17x17x17 Rubik's Cube. It makes quite pretty patterns. It can take many, many hours to solve.

Watch the YouTube video.
Have a look at the inside of this puzzle.
Buy the puzzle at my Shapeways Shop.
Read more at the Twisty Puzzles Forum.
Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

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[Updated on: Sun, 20 February 2011 16:45 UTC]

Hi Shapeways fans,

Get Stuck Cube is a puzzle with an unusual challenge: the goal is to get stuck! The puzzle has a set of sliding pieces, sliding on the surface of a Rubik's Cube. Six of the sliding pieces are double size. They act like a movable bandage. As a Rubik's Cube has six turning faces, it should be possible to block each turn and to get stuck.

Watch the YouTube video.
Buy the puzzle from my Shapeways Shop.
Read more at the Twisty Puzzles Forum.
Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

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Yay, *Forum Title*
3rd Order, and continually wanting more!
I had 3 Model Rides printed that I only ordered about 8 working days ago, so again, a good service by ShapeWays!
They are N Scale Model Fair Rides, scale is 2mm to the foot.
On with some photos!

Fun House, 50ft wide..It's only a frame, to save on costs, I'll PlastiCard it later:


Dodgems... 40ft x 60ft track, Again just frame:


And a close-up of 1 of the 16 Cars:

They are too small scale wise, but I'll redo them later, they measure about 11.5mm x 7mm x 5mm, I was way out with the scale sizes, as wanted to get them to look right first, which took some time, but I got a basic recognisable Dodgem Car shape.

And finally, an overall view of them all...

Also shows the Cars for the Dodgem set, the Laser Cut Challenger Kit, & The Log track, which I made only as the channels, because we can easily make the framework for it, and in the photo, it is propped up by a piece of Mountboard. The Log Channels aren't deep enough at all, so I may print another one after some basic alterations.
The Challenger looks tiny compared to the others, but scale wise, it is fairly correct, and can probably hold the 36 capacity, but the base would look alot better if it was risen at the back, and when the Chequer Plating goes on (More PlastiCard).

All models, bar the Challenger, were Printed in WSF.
Thanks for looking,
Tom.

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I created this in Sketchup some time ago.... but there kept being problems in the conversion when it was time to rpint... I finally got it, and it came out perfect...

Enjoy

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[Updated on: Thu, 27 January 2011 02:21 UTC]

Yippee, I finally got a decent working Ambigram pendant with moving cages!



Light as air! Check out the video on the model page:
http://www.shapeways.com/model/175619/ambicage.html?gid=sf

Thank you for reading and hope you like it!

Cheers,

Virtox

PS. Yes, this is a revamp of the original twirly pendant from way back when which printed unreliably.

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[Updated on: Tue, 25 January 2011 18:05 UTC]

This actually arrived a while ago, but with Valentine's Day coming up, I thought this was a good time to show it off. I had it printed in WSF and coated it with a red sparkly nail polish. (I also gave it a coat of Future floor polish initially, which I think made the nail polish a bit harder to apply evenly, unfortunately.)

I'm sorry that the photo isn't very good. I'm not much of a photographer, and my camera isn't up to much anyway (or at least not closeups).



http://www.shapeways.com/model/83082/heart_shell_pendant.htm l?gid=ug28511

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Hi Shapeways fans,

Sliding Cube is a 2x2x2 cube with 23 tiles sliding around the cube. As the square tiles can slide over edges, they can change orientation. This makes it harder to solve than regular two-dimensional sliding-piece puzzles.

Watch the YouTube video.
Buy the puzzle from my Shapeways Shop.
Read more at the Twisty Puzzles Forum.
Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

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So I get an email, saying my order is to be delivered today, I think, wow, that was quick, just less than a week, and I see the UPS Van pull up outside, get all excited, and eventually open my package...Wow, they're better than I expected, considering the size!

I modelled basic detailed N Gauge/Scale Portaloos, or Portable Toilets, whatever you like to call them in White, Strong & Flexible.
They are in Blocks of Four, and there are Twelve of these, bringing a total of 48 Portaloos.
The Blocks are made up of 8mm x 8mm squares, with a wall thickness of 1mm on the front, and 0.8mm on the other 3 sides. They are 14mm High, and have a curve with a peak of 0.8mm on the top.
The Basic detailing is 2 squares on either side, that are extruded 0.2mm, and these show up quite well.
There is also a frame like detail on the front that is again, extruded 0.2mm, and shows up quite well.
Because each Portaloo has 0.2mm extruded surfaces on each side, in their blocks, I positioned them so they touch, which gives them a clearance of 0.4mm between the sides, and this did fuse the Sides together, but it's not a problem, as they look alrite, and with a swipe of a blade, they divide and the gap opens, to make them look better.
On with some photos!

This is one Block of Four, which is laid down on it's back:


Attempt(Quite hard to focus the camera on something that small!) at showing the Basic Detailing on the Front, and how they line up:


And an overview of roughly how they will be used, on a N Gauge(2mm/ft) Model Steam Fair Layout:


All in all, for my second ShapeWays order, its been great, the first model I made myself, and first time I'v used WSF, & am very happy with the results, & will order some more N Gauge models very soon.
Thanks for reading,
Check out what I have for sale,
Tom.

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Both of these I wanted to order a while ago, just never got to it. My first flicka fit perfectly, but these 2 seem to be slightly too small, so I'll have to modify my flickas. But they still deserve to be introduced. The gimp flicka (inspired by the film pulp fiction). Awesome except the base is slightly too tight for it to slide all the way on. And the shark attack flicka (inspired by the film Jaws of course). Also came out great, but being slighly too small it doesn't sit on a lighter right.



As always my photography is awesome on my daughters princess table

Also got a few other items, 2 of them I need to buy a couple cans of soda to test, and the other is a secrete so I can't share it just yet. Put it came out GREAT.

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Hi Shapeways fans,

Mixup 3x3x4 is a 3x3x4 twisty puzzle of which all centers and edges can be interchanged. This results in some unexpected shape shifting. Sixteen small wedge pieces are visible at the outside. These guide the turning of the middle slices.

Watch the YouTube video.
Buy the puzzle at my Shapeways Shop.
Read more at the Twisty Puzzles Forum.
Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

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Well it was a simple little design of the tragedy & comedy masks I made for my girlfriend for christmas, and my first design printed on shapeways, but I think it came out well.

Sorry for the blurry pictures:

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Hi Shapeways fans,

Gear Skewb is based on the well-known tetrahedral/octahedral Skewb geometry, or actually on the Master Skewb. Twenty-four gears guide the rotation of this puzzle.

Watch the YouTube video
Buy the puzzle from my Shapeways Shop
Read more at the Twisty Puzzles Forum
Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

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These started off with a request from a friend to make a metal pendant model of the Flugel Horn for a family member ('R') as a gift. Both my daughter and R play in the same brass band, my daughter plays the Baritone Horn (Besson BE757). Both models in WSF have a small amount of 'artistic license' to conform to the design rules and are approx 1/12th scale.

The WSF models are a stepping stone towards the final stainless prints, which to keep them at about the same size will have alot more 'artistic license' to make them printable

Flugel Horn


Click here for larger image.

Baritone Horn


Click here for larger image.

Both together in the same picture with a rule for scale.


Click here for larger image.


Funnily enough, the latest Shapeways Blog entry has a video of a working 3d printed Flute... my daughter is also learning to play a Mercury Flute!

[Updated on: Fri, 31 December 2010 09:51 UTC]

My first attempt:



Great Snub Icosidodecahedron



Small Stellated Truncated Dodecahedron.

The edges are square cross section beams rather than cylinders and miter join at the vertices. Although as the models are only 5cm in WSF is not that easy to see.

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I recently had some of my Harry Potter pendants arrive. They were inspired by the pendant seen in the latest installment of the HP saga; Deathly Hallows. After watching the movie I came out of the theatre with my wife and son and said to them "I guess you know what my next pendant is going to be, don't you!?" Their response involved some eye-rolling

I wanted to make mine a little different to others I have seen, though, and custom designed a bail to hold the pendant that included the letters HP in the style seen on the movie posters.

After some very frustrating errors because of the letters I finally got the design accepted.

Below are the pendants in stainless steel, with a close-up, and the coloured versions still in their packaging.

Glenn
http://thirddimensionjewellery.wordpress.com/

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They came out really well, there's a bit of a bronze tinge to the steel, but the detail is better than I hoped for, and they work well!

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Hi all.
This is my first ShapeWays Model Print.
I have been toying with small models to get printed, but this one is a gift, so it was a good reason to order it.
It is a Custom Dog Tag, modelled by "Mathijs van beers" , who did a great job, and I recommend them.
This is the front picture:


And this is what's on the back:

(Both photos were taken, whilst the Tag was still in it's plastic bag)

So, to sum up, I've had a good first Print from ShapeWays, and I look forward to Printing some more in the future.
Again thanks to "Mathijs van beers" for modelling and SW to printing, and brining my idea to life.
Thanks,
Tom.

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Having gained new skills in modelling since my first faltering steps i decided to redo my Earth Defence Fleet Ships.
They arrived yesterday and i couldn't be happier with the way they came out.
Picture quality could be better but it gets the point across. my camera has issues with small objects so the Destroyer and Fighter are not as clear as the Battleship and Cruiser
Battleship
.
Cruiser

Destroyer and fighter


Carrier next and i will be posting the adversaries once they arrive

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[Updated on: Sun, 19 December 2010 00:21 UTC]

Hi Shapeways fans,

Arrow Planet Base is the base only of the Arrow Planet puzzle. Its purpose is to illustrate the jumbling geometry without the surface sliders.

Watch the YouTube video.
Buy the puzzle from my Shapeways Shop.
Read more at the Twisty Puzzles Forum.
Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

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