{"id":17763,"date":"2014-09-09T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=17763"},"modified":"2014-09-09T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:16:08","slug":"your-next-tattoo-made-with-a-3d-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/your-next-tattoo-made-with-a-3d-printer","title":{"rendered":"Your Next Tattoo Made with a 3D Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What better use of the computer controlled x y motors of a 3D printer than to give yourself a tattoo. \u00a0Tattooing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tattoostime.com\/images\/233\/home-made-circle-tattoo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">straight lines and perfect circles are super hard<\/a>\u00a0so the enigmatic crew of <a href=\"http:\/\/appropriateaudiences.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Appropriate Audiences<\/a> have solved that problem by attaching a tattoo machine to their 3D printer to give the perfect circle tattoo (not the band logo).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/3D-PRINTER-X-TATTOO-MACHINE\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17766\" alt=\"3d print a tattoo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3d-print-a-tattoo-625x468.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" data-wp-pid=\"17766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3d-print-a-tattoo-625x468.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3d-print-a-tattoo-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3d-print-a-tattoo-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3d-print-a-tattoo.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This should be listed under &#8216;do not try this at home&#8217; as many territories have different laws on who and how to you can get tattooed. \u00a0To follow their process so you can see exactly how not to try this at home, Pierre Emm and friends have shared their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/3D-PRINTER-X-TATTOO-MACHINE\/\" target=\"_blank\">how (not) to on Instructables<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/89639653?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better use of the computer controlled x y motors of a 3D printer than to give yourself a tattoo&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[509,541,480,498,1640,777,775,776,774,500],"class_list":["post-17763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-35-3d-printer","tag-3d-printer","tag-4-art","tag-22-diy","tag-do-not-try-this-at-home","tag-hack","tag-instructables","tag-tattoo","tag-24-video"],"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3d-print-a-tattoo-625x468.jpg","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - 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