Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
It’s friday and you all know what that means. This week, polyamide is reclaiming its crown for all featured designs. Enjoy!
Recently, the first Drone Games competition was hosted at the Groupon San Francisco offices. Drone Games is a NodeCopter-Style programming competition powered by drones and JavaScript. Hackers will receive one Parrot AR Drone 2.0 so they can work on their project. The day of the Games, hackers will get a chance to present their work to other attendees and judges. Winners and runner ups received some really cool 3D printed medals, designed in Tinkercad by Pekka Salokannel.
What if your card holder you had for years suddenly starts to fall apart? You just fire up Blender like Joost De Cock and design your own.
Mickael Vogel designed a case for a remote control that works with infrared transmission. I do wonder what it controls.
Finally, here’s Mark Bloomfield again with a ‘Secret garden charm‘. Beautiful and intricate as always. Wear it as a
i.materialise site redesign
Today we launched the first version of our new site. In the coming weeks more updates will follow. We”ve updated the look and feel of the site and hope you like the results. The most important thing is that we”re going to give your stories and your designs a much more central place in the website. We want to emphasize that we as a company are a factory for your ideas. Your creativity as a designer, inventor or artist coupled with our 3D printing prowess leads to the expression of your idea in an object. This object could be a keepsake, a Design Academy graduation project, an invention, a jewel, an art piece or a product meant for sale. For each object we will use all our skill, years of experience and equipment to create the most accurate representation of your idea that we can. We will treat each file and each 3D printed object with care and take the time to give you the advice you need. And to show the world what your idea and design skill and our manufacturing leads to
This week in 3D printing 8th to the 14th of January 2011
January 8th. Makerbot is crowned best of CES by David Ewalt of Forbes.
January 10th. Dr. Adrian Boyer of the RepRap project writes about Hod Lipson”s Factory @ Home report for the White House. You should take the time to read it here.
January 10th. Fabbaloo reports on Andrew Monti”s idea for “Books that print” using QR codes.
January 11th. Fab Camp Liverpool is a go, it is a weekend “aimed at raising awareness of the revolution in digital fabrication.” Visitors will be able to 3D print and learn about it and other manufacturing technologies at the event.
January 11th. MIT student Charles Z. Guan makes a Make-A-Bot, a Fused Filament Fabrication machine based on RepRap and Makerbot.
January 11th. The Times features 3D printing in an article “Lost your car key? Never mind, print another with new 3-D printer.”
January 12th. An open source guitar is 3D printed using Blender and an open innovation company called Zoybar. This is an example of network
i.materialise a bicycle GPS holder
Wannes had a GPS in his car and also goes on a lot of bike trips so he used 3D printing to make a holder for his GPS system. His story in his own words is below.
I decided to make a functional object: a bicycle mounting for my GPS. I have a TomTom XL GPS in my car, but I also enjoy recreative cycling and I thought it would be great to have my car’s GPS mounted on my bicycle.
I started with a scan of my GPS. Once I’ve got an STL file I imported it into Blender to adjust the design. I used Blender because I”m most familiar with it for modelling, and I”ve been using it for years. First I created a ring that fits the scan, where the GPS can click on. The back side is open. With a nurb surface forms a horn shape to deflect sound to front. I was thinking that on a bike, where there is no window to deflect the sound, it would be difficult to understand the GPS voice. I created some arms and a stand for on the bicycle steer.
After creating the basic shapes in Blender, I i
Join our bookend design challenge
Hey everyone,
I am happy to announce our new challenge for everyone who enjoys design. We have already conducted a similar challenge with Blender community and are now thrilled to announce a bookend challenge hosted on our website. In this challenge we are asking you to design your own bookend. (more…)
Bookend Challenge Winners
Bookend design challenge [Open now] Deadline extended
Hello everyone,
I am pleased to announce that we are launching a design challenge on Blenderartists.
Check this website for more information.
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The 3 winners, who will be selected by our jury, will get a unique bookend set, based on their design.
You are able submit your design until Monday, February 22nd (GMT +1).
Good luck, we hope to see your design 3Dprinted!
UPDATE:
We have received several requests to extend the deadline for the challenge and decided to give 4 extra days for everyone to design and make their entries.
The Creation lamp
And finally the third winner voted by the BlenderArtists community Xander Clerckx coming from Belgium with the Creation lamp shade, and indeed a great design. Just the lampshade without a lamp base looks astonishing. Some of the guys on the team thought it might be a good idea to build it in bronze, but transparency and bronze do not really go together. In the end we settled for polyamide. We had to do some additional adjustments to the model before we could put it into production. Our support handled those in cooperation with Xander, the result is an astonishing lamp with nice shadow effects. (more…)
Cappuccino lamp
A Cappuccino Lampshade by Andres Roppa coming all the way from Uruguay, check out his page @ www.andresroppa.com. The lamp was designed in Blender and turned out to be stunning. The design is actually an exploding cappuccino mug. Very original and one of our favorites so far! A great idea materialised. For this particular lampshade we decided to use translucent epoxy because we wanted to give it a brownish look and feel of cappuccino. Translucent Epoxy allowed us to paint the transparent shade with brownish colors making this shade a unique, one of a kind piece of art. The properties of material made it possible to make the shade semi transparent. I previously mentioned that we usually use polyamide as our preferred material for lampshades, but if we were to paint polyamide in brown, all transparency would have been lost. Translucent Epoxy is a more expensive material, and impregnating the printed model with color takes up additional time, but the achieved result is totally w
Clone lamp
We are happy to present the winners of the blenderartists.org lamp contest that we started several weeks ago. During the contest we have received a number of great submissions (you can view all of them on our Picasa album) and we are truly happy with the results. We greatly appreciate everyone’s participation, and as a thank you, we decided to make a discount on our service during the BETA starting November 9th. So, if you have a nice design in mind and want it to materialised, it might be just the right time! Once you upload your model the price will be generated automatically for you including the discount. Without further ado here is first winner of the contest: Clone lamp by Irwin Quemener from France. You can check out his website @ cloneproduction.net. This lampshade was built in polyamide, which is a strong and durable material. We usually use polyamide in our .MGX lamp shades because of its durability and strength. (more…)
