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Cheap, portable personal 3D printer: the UP!

The UP! personal 3D printer from China retails for $1500, with goop running at $50/kg. From this early adopter’s review: It runs at 0.3mm resolution, and the finished models show striations from successive layers of goop, but light sanding produces a smooth finish. For objects with funny extrusions and sitcky-outie bits that aren’t stable until they are fully printed, the printer calculates and adds support struts on the fly, and these have to be removed with a hobby knife after printing. Personal Portable 3D Printer (via Futurismic) Shapeways 3D printing by Internet: 500 free beta signups 3D printing with ice 3D printing comes to ceramics Shapeways interviews Makerbot: 3D printing ahoy! Sci-fi objects from a 3D printer Turn an inkjet into a 3D printer High-end 3D printer art Scientific American: five 3D printers…


Laser cut and 3D printed decorative objects derived from geography

Fluid Forms is a 3D printing and laser-cutting company that produces a wide range of objects based on maps, satellite images, and other photos. They started off with topographical maps of physical places printed in sterling silver with pinbacks, and now they’ve expanded their repertoire. The new offerings include necklaces with steel charms based on your photos, or maps (inexplicably, these are marketed as “necklaces for men,” though I can’t imagine why they’re not unisex — the same charms are also available as earrings) and acrylic/wood clocks with finely cut lines reproducing streetmaps. I love the idea of using “emotionally significant” places as motifs for jewelry and other decorative items. On the 3D printing side, it’s a clever way of giving everyone a ready-made, personally important 3D mesh to use as the basis for an object. 3D printed silver brooches featuring your favorite landscapes … Laser cut Poe in stainless steel…