Shapeways 3D Printspiration

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Alan Hudson, Shapeways Director of 3D Tools, has been working on a tool to make it easy to create 3D objects from 2D images. Think of it as the next generation of our 2D to 3D. We’ve gotten the software far enough along that we’re ready to show off to a larger group. After your feedback we’ll fix it up and then release it as open source software.

If you’ve got an interest in 3D printing and can wrangle a 2D image then we’ve got something for you to try!

On January 15th at 7pm at Office Nomads in Seattle we’ll be letting you play with the software, have some drinks and discuss 3D printing.

If you’d like to run the software during the session then please bring a laptop and some image software. We’ve been working with Illustrator, Photoshop, Inkscape and Gimp so far. The software takes in JPEG or PNG images. A good resolution to use 300 DPI images.

RSVP via Meetup to enter the third dimension!

@shapeways 3D Printing Community Meetup at @Quirky HQ, June 27

This month, Shapeways is teaming up with Quirky to host a 3D Printing community meetup at their super amazing offices in Chelsea, NYC.

Come and hear two Shapeways designers, Saad from Saga Design and Brandt and Carrie from thefuturefuture, speak about their 3D Printed products and join us for a short discussion about product design.

Afterwards, grab a beer and stay to mingle with the creative team of Quirky, a social product development company that makes invention accessible.

Join us at Quirky’s offices in Chelsea on Wednesday the 27th of June from 6-8pm, bring your 3D printed creations and meet other Shapies in the NY area. We’ll bring some awesome new models and materials to share too.

RSVP via Meetup

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Shapeways NYC 3D Printing Meetup Was Inspiring

Want to get together and talk all things 3D printing with other Shapeways users in NYC? Join us on Tuesday December 13 at Birch Coffee for coffee/wine and bring your 3D prints, examples of post production or questions about 3D Printing. Join us upstairs in the Birch Coffee Library at 7pm and be sure to RSVP via Meetup so that we can reserve enough space. We are looking forward to seeing you there. (via Shapeways | blog: Shapeways December NYC 3D Printing Meetup)

Shapeways Brings the 3D Printed Magic to New York Tech Meetup

Like a 3D Printed Rabbit out of a 3D Printed Hat, Shapeways Brings the 3D Printed Magic to New York Tech Meetup. On Tuesday 29th of November in front of a capacity crowd of over 800 of New York’s tech community at NYU Skirball Center, VP of Engineering and in house magician Josh Levine pulled some 3D magic out of his hat, literally.

Founded in 2004 by meetup.com founder Scott Heiferman and co-founded by Dawn Barber, the NY Tech Meetup has over 18,000 members, representing professionals from all parts of the New York technology community. Every month, 9 or 10 companies get 3 to 5 minutes each to demo something cool to New York’s tech community (geeks, investors, entrepreneurs, hackers, etc).

You can check out the Livestream of the presentation along with that of other presenters which included:

5ivepoints turns political campaigning into a mobile game that helps candidates win elections by transforming virtual enthusiasm into real world action.

Bubble: Use Bubble to discover what’s being shared about your interests and join the networks for them.

CrowdScanner: Making remarkable conversations happen

Foretuit takes an intelligent, predictive approach to business-to-business sales.

Kogeto: A New Weapon for Social Media: An iphone appcessory that creates interactive, shareable panoramic video

Listly: Create lists of the things you want. Share them with the people you love.

Livestream is the leading provider for real time event coverage. Our tools make it simple for anyone to broadcast live to the web, and Livestream.com is the destination for the top live content from around the world.

Pixable is a beautiful app that finds the top photos and videos shared by your friends on Facebook and Twitter

Smartling: the easiest way to translate your website or mobile app.

Zemanta: A quick and elegant way for bloggers to use images, links and related stories.

Watch the stream to hear the word awesome, often. 

A big thanks to all at NYTM.org