Wing pendant in 'transparent detail' arrived.

Product page
http://www.shapeways.com/model/175924/pendant___wing.html?gi d=ug56271

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This little fractal tree arrived in time for Christmas.

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Although some of you out there have ordered them already, I've finally received and photographed my Designer SnowBauble ornament, shown here with a custom "Baby's First Christmas" inscription:

When ordering, customers choose the shape that hangs inside as well as the text placed on it. As you can see, the "white, strong, and flexible" material has fantastic light properties that are taken full advantage of--I'm very happy with how it turned out! It's even sturdier than I expected, and makes an excellent Christmas tree decoration:


Here's how the ornament looks with different colours of Christmas tree lights behind it:





The texture of the nylon is perfect--very snowlike. But I'm sure it would be beautiful in any of the dyed colours as well--only one way to find out. There's still time to order one before Christmas !!!

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Hi Shapeways fans,

Arrow Planet is a twisty puzzle with 52 arrowed squares moving around a sphere. But also the sphere parts can turn. This puzzle combines jumbling, fudging and sliding.

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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For those of you with Ultimate Desk Toys, or those who will have them soon--some new accessories for you to drool over.


First, there is the unique outline globe which balances from the upper perch of the Ultimate Desk Toy's stand:


This piece has been offered for a while, but only on faith of my design abilities since I hadn't had the chance to print it yet. Now that I have it, I am considering offering it in a larger stand-alone design because I love the look produced by printing only the shoreline and continental shelves of the continents:


Then, there is the brand new Short Floater/Spinner which spins beautifully on the Ultimate Desk Toy's upper perch:


As shown in the teaser, the Short Floater/Spinner can also spin while dangling from a neodymium magnet (not included). My record so far is 3 minutes and 13 seconds of spin, but surely you can do better! The careful positioning of the center of mass allows the spinner to hold a significant list while spinning, and to convert desk vibrations into both rocking and rotating motion when dangling from a magnet, similar to a rattleback.



The second stand appearing in the photos is a bronze glossy copy demonstrating the Ultimate Desk Toy's lefty-friendly configuration. If it's going to be custom-made, it might as well be perfectly matched to you!


The stand sells for $35 customised and shipped, or together with a toy of your choice for $50. Toys are $25 a piece.

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Hi Shapeways fans,

Mixup 2x3x3 was suggested by Eric Vergo. It is a 2x3x3 twisty puzzle, similar to the classic "Rubik's Domino" puzzle. However, this puzzle has an additional twist, which allows it to be turned to strange shapes.

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 my Video Mixer Button arrived today!

The original broke, so I drew this one up and got it printed out! I have a MakerBot, but it's not being very accurate right now and the button came out a little.. blah..

Any who check out the pics!







I also got a set of Weighted Companion Cube Dice!

[Updated on: Tue, 16 November 2010 00:43 UTC]

Hey guys, my fruitybowl test print has arrived today, I'm really happy with the detail, the weight of the fruit slightly deforms it in places so I think I'll either need to switch to white detail for the stiffness or add some structural ribs for additional support, havent got my camera atm so a few moby shots will have to suffice for now. Cheers.
FruityBowl

[Updated on: Mon, 15 November 2010 19:37 UTC]

I was playing around with morphing a cube, and I kept making these great fin shapes.

So I said to myself, "That fin would look great on a rocket!".

A few iterations later and I had a rocket.




It's red because the rocket cost under the $25 minimum charge and I really wanted to get my first item printed with Shapeways, so I got it coloured. I'm glad that I did.

I did think about putting in a little stair case, but I wanted to keep the design as simple and minimal as possible.

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[Updated on: Fri, 12 November 2010 22:54 UTC]

My new starfish earrings! (It didn't come in the gift box, I put them in there for show)
http://www.shapeways.com/model/167686/starfish_earrings.html ?gid=ug4247


Star Pinwheel pendant in White detail:
http://www.shapeways.com/model/148824/star_pinwheel_pendant. html?gid=ug4247


in glossy bronze:

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Hi Shapeways fans,

Hollow Diamond is an octahedron-shaped twisty puzzle that is completely hollow inside. The puzzle has the geometry of a Skewb puzzle. The puzzle is constructed by taking a Minimal Twist puzzle and adding six pyramid-shaped plugs. Frank Tiex and Carl Hoff came up with the suggestion to add plugs.

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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[Updated on: Mon, 15 November 2010 18:42 UTC]

Hi Shapeways fans,

Hollow Skewb is a cube-shaped twisty puzzle that is completely hollow inside. The puzzle has the geometry of a Skewb puzzle. The puzzle is constructed by taking a Minimal Twist puzzle and adding eight shallow pyramid-shaped plugs. Frank Tiex and Carl Hoff came up with the suggestion to add plugs.

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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[Updated on: Mon, 15 November 2010 18:41 UTC]

This is a famous puzzle designed by Stewart Coffin 40 years ago. Wood copies must be made with great accuracy and have become sought-after collectors items selling for several hundred dollars. This leads to the current state of affairs where many people have never even seen this excellent puzzle. I had never seen one, so I exported the pieces from BurrTools and printed out a copy. Now anyone can order an inexpensive copy of this puzzle. Meanwhile serious collectors I am sure will prefer the wood versions.



Six pieces, all different, assemble into a cube with side 32mm or about 1.25 inches. The markup on this item is only 22 cents. I dyed my version in three colors for a multi-hue look where the same color doesn't touch in the final cube. You may notice, though, that this makes it (slightly) easier to solve the puzzle.



Here is a link to the model page. I plan also to make a smaller version which will be about $15.

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[Updated on: Sun, 07 November 2010 00:20 UTC]

Valhall Station (grey, designed to look like a station on the cover of a pulp SF magazine) and Olympus Station, a slightly more realistic one.
Plus a Zarthaan Super Battle Rocket and a revised to correct turret cannon thickness issues War Rocket Achilles.

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This time i had to wait a little bit longer, but the support team was very supporting.

This is a new product in my jewelry-shop.
You can order this with your own text, just like the generators on shapeways, but it's not an automated process. Godd old modeling every single time


What you think?

It looks quite rough on the photos but it looks more shiny in real life, as it is quite small. The inner diameter ist just 16mm.

And another customizable ring, that i did not polish yet. It's even smaller.


Cheers

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My Faux Animal Claw pendant arrived recently. It is 3cms in length, printed in stainless steel. Some dremel polishing on the "claw" part.

Glenn

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This arrived some time ago, just got around to posting pic's. It was a custom pendant designed for a company. 11.5cms in height, printed in SWF. This took me quite a while to do and the "swirly bits" on the text are quite flexible!

Glenn

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Hi Shapeways fans,

Fairly Fudged is based on the same strange geometry as the Fairly Twisted puzzle. In this version, also the pentagonal face can turn. This required a bit of fudging, hence the name of this puzzle.

I made the puzzle as hollow as I could, as Shapeways still charges per printed volume.

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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Hey Shapers

Here are 2 pics of my Coasters of iPhone Apps in Full Color that arrived to customers.

I want to point out that the white is back ! meaning shapeways apparently listens to the community and looks like have perfected the wax coating process so the model's white color doesn't turn into off-white after waxing.

This is a very important issue - with a real white background all shades and colors look much more amazing.







If you want your own photo,pic,cartoon on a single coaster try this - Print-A-Coaster


Cheers,
Dizingof

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[Updated on: Fri, 29 October 2010 12:18 UTC]

Hi Shapeways fans,

Bram's Square is an idea by Bram Cohen. Take a 3x4 rectangle of which each of the 3x3 sub-squares can be rotated. Well, actually, Bram wanted a 5x6 rectangle, but even a 3x4 would already be extremely difficult to solve. The movement is slide-turn-slide-slide, repeat ...

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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I finally got around to ordering a few things, including my snowflake ring ( http://www.shapeways.com/model/68226/snowflake_tea_light_rin g__bigger_.html?gid=ug28511). This is the larger one that I made when I realized that the original wasn't going to quite fit around the tea light holder I wanted to use. I still need to put a protective coating on it - I'll probably try Future floor polish, as recommended by a Shapie elsewhere.



Gillian.

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online press has a lot to write about my puzzle;)
grigorusha Microbic

http://www.shapeways.com/model/95671/microbic.html?gid=sg270 16

You will find the articles here:
http://www.google.ru/search?q=world%27s+smallest+Rubik%27s+C ube

http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/13/smallest-rubiks-cube/
http://gizmodo.com/5662784/solving-the-smallest-rubik-cube-i n-the-world
http://gizmodo.com/5665530/making-a-rubiks-cube-smaller-only -makes-it-harder-to-solve
http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/worlds-smallest-rub iks-cube-gets-taken-for-a-spin-20101014/
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/tiny-fully-functional -rubiks-cube-smaller-than-a-thumbnail/

[Updated on: Thu, 21 October 2010 05:24 UTC]

Absolutely marvellous-looking dice from ceramicwombat.

The thorn dice set with decader and pinwheel d6 & d20, all in gold.



And together with a non-printed regular D10 to give you an idea of the size.



Three black dice bags came with the order as well. Only the pinwheel D20 (bottom right in first picture) might need some colour so the numbers stand out a bit more.

The thorn set is polished, the pinwheel dice are not - the difference is not very remarkable.

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My Spiral flower in alumide: http://www.shapeways.com/model/160783/spiral_flower_with_loo p.html?gid=ug48669
http://www.shapeways.com/model/160780/spiral_flower.html?gid =ug48669
It even arrived sooner than the announced 10 days. I'm very happy

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[Updated on: Sat, 16 October 2010 19:35 UTC]

Some Escher knots have arrived: 3 types in 3 sizes. More pictures in my shop.

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Hi Shapeways fans,

AntiCube was suggested by Jason Smith. It has the geometry of a square antiprism. Some fudging was needed to make everything fit. This twisty puzzle has ten turning faces: two square and eight triangular. It has only edges, that turn over and under each other in unexpected ways.

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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I created and ordered a jewelry for my mother's 60:s birthday. It's roughly 5 by 6 cm.

I ordered it in bronze. The results were good! I should have ordered it in stainless steel instead because it looked a bit too yellow for my taste.



I did find an error with my print. On the backside (thankfully!) there is a sort of "gutter" (don't know a better word, sorry) that goes along almost the while back. It's about 3 mm wide. Thankfully it's on the back so it doesn't matter for this jewelry. It's just something that maybe should be noted? I don't know the reason for it.

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Hi Shapeways fans,

Gear Shift is based on an idea by Bram Cohen. This puzzle has eight gears around a cube. All gears can turn together. But it is also possible to pull the gears apart in two sets of four. Each set of four can be turned individually. And there are three ways to split the gears. The object of this puzzle is similar to Rubik's Cube: scramble it and then try to solve it.

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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OK, got the first prints of a bunch of my dice. Some of them have already been redesigned and the new versions ought to arrive today, but the pictures are at least close.

First, a d12 made from the compound of 5 tetrahedra. Just fine the way it is. The picture doesn't properly get across how cool things look in Alumide:



My open d20 in WSF. Also not the greatest picture.



My whole set of Rattling Bones dice. A near-success. The new ones come in today. I hope to fix the one wireframe that didn't stay free:



My 12-sided round die needs some work on the inside, have to see if I can get it to land with one face up all the time. It's fairly good at it, but not quite good enough.



And the round d8 also needs some help. Additionally, it came packed with support powder, which I'm slowly managing to get out. Poked a paperclip wire through all the pips, blowing into it, bouncing it around—word to the wise: white strong and flexible is also quite bouncy!



There's even more, but I'll wait on those and try to get the new versions up when they arrive.

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So, I had a few designs I was exited to see print because I didn't know how they would turn out... And, once again, Shapeways has exceeded my expectations!

First up is the Interlocked Mobius: three double-sides mobius strips interlock with each other, inextricably intertwined:



This was a two-fold experiment: First, I wanted to figure out how to make a mobius strip in Blender. What I ended up doing was taking a cube and extruding it, then rotating the extrusion a little... then repeating until the total rotation was 180 degrees. Then I created a curve circle and applied a curve modifier to link my extruded model to the circle. A few tweaks and VOILA! A mobius-type ring. Second, I was just playing around with orienting objects in 3d space so that they would print separately. It was a huge success, and the loops are all separate from each other, though permanently intertwined. It's kind of a pointless model, but it would make a unique necklace.

My next model is a Chunky Mobius:



This happened by accident while scaling and tweaking the main component of my Interlocked Mobius. I thought it looked cool, and what do you know? It looks really cool in transparent detail! I will wash it later; there seems to be a slightly waxy coating on it, and there's a touch of detail material stuck inside, but that's to be expected since it's kind of small and hard to clean.

Finally, the pride and joy of this order, my Sun, Moon, and Stars:



As you can see, the sun is a little broken at the top, but I think it gives it character, don't you?

I carefully designed this to barely meet all the minimum thickness requirements, instead of my usual, clumsy process of modeling first, measuring later. After all, I'm hoping to sell some of my models, eventually. I gotta have a more professional attitude, huh? Enough rambling. I was a little afraid this would turn out quite fragile, considering the loops are only 1mm thick... but, it's holding together quite well.



Overall, these models were a huge success. 3d printing -- it's AWESOME! Thanks once again, Shapeways, you have one satisfied customer!

Now, if only I can hold in my impatience until my next order arrives...

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[Updated on: Thu, 07 October 2010 16:36 UTC]