3DPS: Shapeways, My little Pony and Dragons!

Shapeways’ main selling points: Ponies, Bling and Dragons!

So, shapeways! You might know them as a 3D-print on demand service who are doing the full range of processes from plastic and metal sintering with SLS and SLM, as well as full-color powder prints and glazed ceramics that look just like the real thing. And they are, they are actually real ceramics that, you know, you can drink coffee out of. But each one of these is 3D printed. Now, of course, you can upload your files and designs and they’ll print them for you, but what i didn’t know yet was that they also have a marketplace-style shop as one of the main things they’re doing now. You can order pretty much everything they had on their booth online, and most of the stuff isn’t even that expensive. As a 50 dollar print, they showed off  Princess Celestia from my little Brony – which did look epic just by itself, but they’ve apparently licensed that entire show and then some. Take that, Makerbot Digital store. The 3D selfie is another so hot right now thing that everyone and their mother seem to be doing, and shapeways can offer their full-color sandstone process to print those models.

The other big thing on-demand printers are really good at is printing jewelry, and for that, shapeways can print your files or the ones artists offer in their marketplace, in bronze, steel, silver, gold plated brass or even in solid gold or Platinum. Some of which they’re casting for you instead of directly printing it, so if you wanted to, you could buy a 3 and a half thousand dollar custom 3D printed platinum wedding ring if that’s your kind of thing.

What also goes into that artistic, but still useful area of applications, are the 3d printed dragon door handles they showed. Not the american-style door knobs yet, those might be a future project of designer Kai Bracher. He showed off a few different handle designs that he’s selling through shapeways for between 200 and 300 dollars, and again, you can get them in plain steel, brass or gold-enrobed steel. And admittedly, these were one of my favorite things from the 3D Printshow. They’re unique, they’re useful, they show off what 3D printing can do, and, you know, they’re downright just awesome. I asked him about a design that looks a bit beefier and massive enough for a front door and let’s see, he might just make one like that.

Check out his work at dragondoorhandles.com; shapways is at shapeways.com, obviously. Those links are also in the video description. Stay tuned and subscribe for more coverage from the 2015 3D Print Show Berlin, thanks for watching, and i’ll see you in the next one.

Dragon door handles dragondoorhandles.com and http://www.shapeways.com/shops/ http://www.shapeways.com/shops/cabrada
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