Feel color with Shapeways

     
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  April 23rd 2009

+ Feel color
+ Free puzzle
+ Make Faire+ The Winner of the Moving Part contest
+ Blog
 
       
   

+ Feel color!

 

SLS dyeing

Hello Everyone,

Our most popular material White, Strong & Flexible is now available in three distinctive colors for you: Terracotta, Limestone & Blue Jeans. 

We chose these colors because the tactile qualities of White, Strong & Flexible mimic those of terracotta, limestone & blue jeans.

If like most of the world's population you have never held a 3D printed model in your hands before, run your fingertips softly over your jeans. 

You can also glide your hand over a terracotta pot or take the time to touch a limestone building. What you feel,  this 'fine roughness' that tickles your fingers, this is how White, Strong & Flexible feels. 

Now you can make or buy an object that not only is a particular color, it feels it too. There are lots of pictures and more details on this dedicated page.   

Kind regards,

Joris Peels

Community Manager, Shapeways

joris@shapeways.com

+ Free colored puzzle with your order!
 Colored cube

To let you guys get to feel and see our colors up close we will be giving away free puzzles! Richard Gain's Micro Puzzle is quite possibly the world's smallest puzzle. The puzzle has three faces and each will be colored in one of our 3 colors. We will give away a 100 of Richard's puzzles to the first 100 orders this week. 
 

+ Maker Faire Contest

The 30th of May we will be going to Maker Faire, an awesome festival of creative tinering and making talent. 

In order to inspire everyone there: we need you! Make us the most entertaining, inspiring model that shows what 3D printing can do for the world. It has to be something we can display there and that instantly makes people go: WOW! We're going to make this contest extra special: the top three models will be printed, exhibited at Maker Faire and after sent to the designers. The winner gets an aditional $300 in 3D printing. Contest closes 15th of May. More details on the blog..  

Maker Faire
 

+ The winner of our Moving Part Contest
Rollback car

The winner of our Moving Part Contest is...

 

 

 
 

+ Blog
We have a couple of interesting articles on our blog for you. See how Peter Paul, our maker in residence, handpolished his Ringpoems, or how he used 3D printing to make stamps.

Or how Bcans made a bike computer, see some awesome finished models such as a pill box and a 250 CC engine intake, check out pictures of Yan Ying's titanium 3D print and read about how Enrico Dini is 3D printing buildings!   

Bike computer  

  

 

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