{"id":300,"date":"2009-10-16T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/300-please-touch-my-braille-braille-and-3d-printing.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:53:12","slug":"please-touch-my-braille-braille-and-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/please-touch-my-braille-braille-and-3d-printing","title":{"rendered":"Please touch my braille, braille and 3D printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love interesting new ways to combine data visualization with products and 3D printing such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/288-Weather-Bracelet-3D-printed-data-visualization.html\">Weather Bracelet<\/a>. We also love examples of Co-Creation such as the models on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/themes\/co-creator_plaform\">Co-Creator Platform<\/a> gallery. <\/p>\n<p>When an experienced community member combines both into a great model &amp; great concept we were in a virtual tizzy of excited chatter at the office. <\/p>\n<p><!-- s9ymdb:747 --><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/52548\/braille_ring.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"510\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/BrailleRingVirtox2.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Stijn van de Linden&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/52548\/ring_braille_fd_18mm.html\"> Braille Ring<\/a> is just simply a touching gift. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/hisdesign?user_id=4834\">Stijn or Virtox<\/a> as he&#8217;s known on Shapeways has been making a lot of great designs and we love this one. Stijn is in the product development stage however. He wants to order some more designs for himself and when he&#8217;s completely satisfied with the results he will offer them for sale on Shapeways. Stijn is also working on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/52565\/binary_ring__group_.html\">binary<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/52327\/morse_ring__bold_.html\">morse<\/a> co-creation rings, so that should be fun also. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- s9ymdb:748 --><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/22866\/braille_dice.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"68\" width=\"110\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Aaragorn_braille_dice1-150x150.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first to develop something for 3D printing and braille is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/mydesign?user_id=18117\">Aaragorn<\/a> however, who back in March came up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/22866\/braille_dice.html\">Braille dice<\/a>. Others are working in Braille too someone printed brialle lables using their <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2009\/09\/printing_braille.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890\">Makerbot<\/a>. Because of all your braille inspiration &amp; this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/blog.php?url=archives\/297-Touching-3D-printing-story.html\">touching 3D printing story<\/a> we made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/themes\/braille\">Braille theme page<\/a> and will add more and more Braille objects to it as they are designed by you. At the moment we have Braille key chain, a Braille medallion and several more items <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/themes\/braille\">on the page<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still looking for a Braille Rubik&#8217;s cube-type puzzle and lots more Braille creativity from you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love interesting new ways to combine data visualization with products and 3D printing such as the Weather Bracelet. 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