3D4D Challenge: discover the finalists!
Who will win 100.000 dollar for their 3D printed social project? Only five days to go til we can give you an answer to this question, but we didn’t want to wait to present you the 8 finalists!
All the finalists will get 1000 dollar and expert mentors to develop their projects, but ofcourse their can only be one winner: What project will win the big prize, namely 100.000 dollar? The jury got entries from all over the world and picked out 8 finalists. To give you a better view on the competition, we present you the projects.
BORIS COGAN- Israel/US
This finalist has got an easy to manufacture and assemble robotic greenhouse in mind. The project would enable local communities to produce vegetables and fruit very easy, even in the hardest conditions.
EDMUND BELL-KING and CORNELL JACKSON – United Kingdom
Ed and Cornell’s project involves the development of Solar lamps created from used plastic Coke bottles using 3D printed ‘bottle caps’ and attachments for the charger, batte
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
Happy friday everyone! We hope you had a nice week, we certainly did. To end the week in beauty: check out the newest designs in our gallery.
We have another shiny week ahead! Dizingof made a new dice: the D6 Sliced Dice (one of the 300 he already designed!) for dice collectors and gamers worldwide. The design is created in goldplated and polished brass.
The next entry is a design made by Flavio Bellantuono: the Lotus Ring. It’s a really nice jewel to wear. The ring is white and rose gold plated with a small yellow sapphire on the top. The petals are completely movable.
Last but not least: Kevin Wei, an experimental designer from New York, keeps surprising us with his original designs. One of his latest entries, Basalt 114 Double Ring, is inspired by the columnar structures of Namibia, Turkey, and Brazil, where fractured, faceted plates have formed through the rapid cooling of basaltic lava. The ring is finished in gold-plated brass.
Well that was it for this
Guestblog Tom Kurke: Attacking the 3D Printing Hype Cycle
In ten years we will 3D print our houses and have at least one 3D Printer at home. We all hear these stories, but what should we believe? Tom Kurke, COO of Geomagic, gives his view on the 3D printing hype.
No offense to Gartner, but I believe they’ve gotten it wrong in their assessments of 3D printing and 3D scanners in their ‘Hype Cycle‘ info graphics. Gartner concludes that both 3D printing and scanning are 5-10 years away from their ‘plateau of productivity.’ While it is certainly debatable when mass customization and the concept of a personal factory will be unlocked by the democratization of 3D capture and production technologies – these tools are being used productively, now, in a wide range of businesses.
It’s easy for a research analyst, writer, blogger, industry pundit or other predictor of ominous events to throw cold water on innovation and creativity. But the question remains, how does hype transition to a market- and game-changing shift that impacts the way people li
Newsflash: High detailed stainless steel (HS) has entered the building!
It’s all in the details. With high detailed stainless steel (HS), you can go wild with your designs. We tested the materials for a few weeks now and it looks pretty stunning. You can situate the material between silver and titanium. It’s pretty much as strong as titanium, but more shiny and mostly less expensive. Towards silver it’s less shiny but stronger. So if you’re looking for alternatives with a very high detailed standard: this could be the one!
For weeks we were (and are) excited to finally tell you the news and give you, as a designer, more -detailed- options. Wim, even did a test on rust: he put a high detailed stainless steel design in a bath with salt and no marks of rust are visible. We can’t wait to discover what you’ll design with this material!
We’re still waiting to put HS on our material page: we will let you try, play and test the material until the end of the year and see whether the material is worth to have its own place on our material page. We
London calling: visit i.materialise at the 3D Printshow
Only ten more days to go and the 3D Printshow in London will start off for the first time. We, the i.materialise-team will be present so come and check us out at our booth or join one of our workshops.
The Brewery in London is getting ready for their first 3D Printing event ever. From the 19th until the 21st of October the days will be filled with workshops, seminars and live 3D printing shows.
Come check out our booth (K21): we will show you a selection of designs made by designers of our community such as the 3D printed retro Bioscope, designed by Jon Stam & Simon de Bakker and of course Josh Henry’s amphibious ‘Ula Miami Concept Car’ will be making its European debut at our booth! Also, be sure to check out Iris van Herpen’s dress from the Escapism collection- 3D printed at Materialise.
WORKSHOPS
Need a workout? No problem. We have two on offer on Saturday 20th of October:
- Workshop with Tinkercad (15:00-16:00) to introduce you to their easy to use 3D web application. W
Featured Friday- Showing your 3D printed designs
Happy friday everyone! We hope you had a nice week, we certainly did. To end the week in beauty: check out the newest designs in our gallery.
This week we have a very shiny Featured Friday! The first 3D printed design we want to show you is this Lovely Whistle, created by Michael Muller. According to him you can use the whistle to command people you like and because there is a heart in the whistle they won’t be annoyed by you. The whistle is created in gold plated brass. Can’t wait to see more of this German designer!
EYE CATCHER
The second design is from Dizingof and called Infinity because the form has a continous flow. You can use this brass design as a penholder or as an eye catcher on your desk.
Last design is a very nice one as well. The Bellflower Earrings are a creation by Flavio Bellantuono and are silver plated.
Well that was it for this week, hope you have a good weekend!
PS: Don’t forget we’ve got a new challenge ‘Christmas Ornaments’ going on, find
Looking for a good 3D modeler? Find one on our Forum!
You have some great ideas in your head to 3D print, but you don’t know how to design in 3D? No problem, with our 3D modeling service on the forum you can easily find a qualified 3D modeler.
Now that 3D printing is getting bigger and becoming mainstream, more and more people want to design 3D printable objects. Of course, not everyone has the set of skills to do that. So we reserved a special place on the forum with a list of qualified designers to help you out. Check out the 3D modeler service to find a 3D modeler yourself. We already checked 2 designers and put their services online.
Are you a designer yourself that wants to offer your services? Check out our application form and fill it in. We will check your portfolio and 3D modeling skills before you can become a listed designer like Dot San or Visualize-to.
Note that i.materialise is not liable for any transactions taking place between users. Therefor we won’t have a ranking system for listed designers. In case of com
Back to school Meetup: new faces, new ideas!
What an exciting meeting we had last Friday; We saw some familiar faces, but most of them were new, coming from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
CURIOUS
Although the group was very quiet in the beginning – which is normal, since they didn’t know each other- after the i.materialise presentation everyone started to socialize. While checking out the materials and asking our support engineers questions about material strength, cost and so on some were really glad to show projects they were working on. Other people didn’t have any experience in 3D printing at all, but were curious about the whole process and were thinking about working with 3D modelers for their jewelry design or other objects.
ACTION
Next on the program was the tour through the Materialise buildings. People are always very excited to see a few of the 72 printers in action and hear interesting 3D printing stories. It gives a good view on the in-house machines and production. It’s always funny to see how
Luigi Vaghi and Miel Wellens win our Urban Nomad contest!
We saw many nice entries, but of course only one per category can win. After the votes of Flanders DC and our team were counted we selected the best entries . Miel Wellens and Luigi Vaghi are the winners of the challenge!
Miel Wellens was really pushing himself to the limit in this challenge; we received four designs and each single one was very popular amongst the jury members. He is the big winner of this competition; he wins his 3D prints ‘Pencilery’ and ‘Paperspin’ in the categories stainless steel and polyamide, besides that we will showcast his design at the festival of creativity. I think these two items need a little explanation. The designer invented a new word, especially for this design, namely: pencilery = pencils + cutlery!
Why this fits in the theme? Wellens: “Even on the road you want to eat with descent forks or knives (instead of the crappy plastic ones), so that’s how I came up with this easy solution. They also fit at the back of pencils, for those creative peop
Featured Friday- Showing your 3D printed designs
Happy friday everyone! We hope you had a nice week, we certainly did. To end the week in beauty: check out the newest designs in our gallery.
RINGS
We had a tsunami of jewelry from Monomer, a great designer from Germany. We’d like you to show one his rings, the Aurora Minos, which is very light as it is made in titanium and then nicely polished. Discover his other rings in the gallery!
ITALY
The second design we’d like to show you is also a very nice piece of fine jewelry: the semeaureo mini! Made by Marco Ferrarin, one of our great designers from Italy who created this earrings. It matches perfectly with the pendant. Both are made in brass.
TRAINMODEL
Last but not least: we really love the trainmodels we see in our gallery and this is one of the latest entries from Jan Neider from Germany. He made some really good pictures of his painted prime gray trainmodel.
Well that was it for this week, hope you have a good weekend!
PS: Don’t forget we’ve got a new challenge
