Getting Ready for the Materialise World Conference
As mentioned on our blog before… this year will see the rise of another Materialise World Conference. As it’s just around the corner we thought it would be a great idea to remind you guys of the awesomeness that it will bring. Are you curious to know who will win the Hats off to 3D Printing Design Challenge? Then definitely stay tuned on our twitter account on Wednesday April 18th as we will be announcing it through there as soon as it’s revealed to us. We also plan to tweet some pictures of the event as the day progresses to keep you up to date on the latest 3D Printing news.
The following day we’ll finally showcase all the Top 20 3D printed hats on our blog and on our flickr account + if possible provide you guys with inside information from some of the participants who will be present at the event themselves.
We’ll keep you updated so stay tuned!
Great phones ask for great covers
Your own unique cover in 1 2 3 ( 4 5)
Look what our friends Jonas and Daaf from Samson design studio have created. Yourkees allows you to create unique and awesome looking iPhone covers.
You are able to build your own KEES (Dutch for ‘Case’) by combining a side bumper with two back layers. These layers can be selected in two libraries. The first one is filled with 3D structures; the second one is filled with beautiful images of –mostly everyday- objects. The magic happens when you see the combination of both. As if that is wasn’t enough, you can also add your own piece of text on the cover AND select different material options! Some of the covers have a very special velvet look, of which you will soon hear more on our blog.
i.materialise is proud to work together as production partner for these guys. We see many great 3D printed covers passing by, but the configurator they have developed allows everyone to create cool designs with a unique touch
Stories from our latest Meetup
Last Friday we had a very successful meetup at i.materialise. We got to meet some of our community members and got to hear their stories first hand. We provided them with a presentation about our services and a guided tour of the facilities where they did (as promised) get to see about 60+ printers. We were also very excited to find people flying in from as far as Sweden or Slovenia to attend this meetup. Now that’s what I call passionate community members!
The attendees ranged from university students, to working professionals, to independent business owners and to accommodate them, we made sure to have a big part of our staff at their disposal. Questions got asked and answers were provided. It was the ideal way for us to interact with our community.
I must say that we were very satisfied with the results of our first meetup and we can only hope that our attendees enjoyed themselves as much as we did. If you are reading this and think to yourself “I wish I could have bee
Impressions from a very inspiring TEDxLeuven
Let me tell you of a place where you get to shake hands with the president of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and hang out with the phenomenal chocolate master Domique Persoone at the same time… that place was TEDxLeuven. What is TED or TEDx for that matter? Watch the video below to find out!
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Take a walk down Fantasy Lane for this Design Challenge
Do you remember the days when you used to read these magical children’s storybooks as a child? Your imagination running wild while you processed the words on the page… Imagining the world and the characters behind the story… It was the perfect way to stimulate your imagination. Well today in collaboration with the awesome Digital Tutors, we ask you to jump back in time in search of the wonderful characters your imagination cooked up for you!
We have organized a design challenge where you get to walk down fantasy lane one more time to bring back the memories of your favorite children’s storybook character.
So the objective is to create your interpretation of any children’s’ storybook character, that is, it has to be an original design and not based on an existing illustration. The material used will be multicolor, so don’t hesitate to have a look at the multicolor design guide to maximize your chances of winning. So what can you win in this challenge? i.materialise will provid
Announcing a New Challenge with Too Many Wires
Ever found yourself tangled up between all these cords that connect your screens with your computer and your computer with your printer or router and so forth?
Unfortunately we live in a world with too many wires and considering technology is having it difficult to keep up with our demand for a wireless environment, why not find a solution ourselves?
The time to create that solution is NOW!
Mookum & i.materialise have joined forcess to bring you the following design challenge:
Create your own cord manager
This can be a cord manager that collects all the cables from your computer or one for all the loose phone and adapter cables in your bag. Or what about a cord manager to hold your earphone wires in place? The possibilities are endless, it’s up to you to find that perfect design that will fit your needs.
Find out more about this new challenge on Mookum’s website.
The Month of March in 3D Printing
As we reach towards the end of the month, we look back at the awesome events that took place in the world of 3D printing. In this sense, the month of March was quite an interesting month with successful Kickstarter projects, a superb Free Universal Construction Kit, a cool guide on how to build a 3D printer yourself and much, much more. Let’s have a look at with this month had in store for us so far…
On the Kickstarter forefront we’ve found two wonderful projects that have successfully been funded. These two projects are The Stelliform Owl (A Sculpture project in Tracy, CA by Grant Miller) and The Sparklab: the educational build-mobile (An Open Hardware project in Stanford, CA by SparkLab). Both projects seem like great contributions to the 3D printing community.
In New Zealand Weta mastermind Sir Richard Taylor opened a new $15 million block at his son’s private school on the 2nd of March. The interesting little detail here is that among the features of the new building were c
You are welcome to visit us and our 60+ printers
Have you ever wondered what the machines look like that create your wonderful designs? Or maybe who some of the people are that provide you with support for your projects? Maybe you’ve got questions about our services and would like to ask them to us personally? Well on March 30th you will have the great opportunity to experience all of these things and much more.
We are organizing a meetup for 30 participants at our headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. So if you want to meet us as badly as we want to meet you, I’d say RSVP now on our facebook page. We look forward to seeing you then!
Announcing a very colorful month
It’s time to bring some color into your life! Colors are known to awaken our feelings and drive our emotions. They can turn something that is boring and dull into a colorful feast filled with life and joy. Colors tend to tell a story and colors are always a sign of feeling alive. So why wouldn’t you shower yourself in colors? Better yet… why not shower your 3D printed designs in colors?
At i.materialise we have a lovely material for that called multicolor. It’s a material that has wowed many people through its amazing capabilities and we have plenty of easy to use tools to help you achieve the same results.
An architectural model done in Google SketchUp by Lisa Kraft
Easy to use software packages such as Google SketchUp, Tinkercad and 3DTin all have an i.materialise solution for bringing your colorful designs to life in our multicolor material. We have seen detailed characters in this material as well as amazing architectural models. And recently we have even printed some ama
Announcing the Top 20 of the Hats off to 3D Printing Challenge
After a very successful design challenge with loads of very talented participants, the jury that’s chaired by Elvis Pompilio has come to a collective decision on who has made it to the top 20. This was quite a tough call as there were so many great entries, but at the end of the day we had to make a decision. (more…)
