{"id":8370,"date":"2010-11-22T07:51:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T11:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8370"},"modified":"2010-10-18T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T16:12:11","slug":"shapeways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8370","title":{"rendered":"Shapeways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/skullring-133x150.jpg\" alt=\"Skull Ring\" title=\"Skull Ring\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Sites that permit you to custom-manufacture various items have been gaining popularity on the Web over the past couple of years: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/\">Lulu<\/a> lets you print your own books, places like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/\">Cafepress<\/a> allow you to customize T-shirts, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spoonflower.com\/welcome\">Spoonflower<\/a> offers on-demand custom fabrics.<\/p>\n<p>And now there&#8217;s a new service that is kind of blowing my mind.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/\">Shapeways<\/a> will print 3-D objects for you.<\/p>\n<p>They use the same additive manufacturing technology that&#8217;s become so popular for rapid prototyping, where multiple layers of material are &#8220;printed&#8221; on top of each other until a 3-dimensional object is built up.  They provide an interface to design objects of your own, and you can also upload a design that you&#8217;ve created in a CAD program.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to creating unique objects or prototypes for your own use, they also offer an Etsy-type store where you can sell your creations (such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/83518\/skull_ring.html?gid=mgarray\">skull ring<\/a> pictured above).<\/p>\n<p>This service is a huge boon to those of us with no sculpting ability whatsoever, or for anyone who wants to (for instance) create a one-of-a-kind ring without investing in metallurgy tools.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiousgood.com\/?p=652\">Curious Goods<\/a>, who is selling the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/153058\/oz_key.html?gid=rg\">Key to Oz<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sites that permit you to custom-manufacture various items have been gaining popularity on the Web over the past couple of years: Lulu lets you print your own books, places like Cafepress allow you to customize T-shirts, and Spoonflower offers on-demand custom fabrics. And now there&#8217;s a new service that is kind of blowing my mind. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8370"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8689,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370\/revisions\/8689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}