From WIRED Design:
The first thing you notice when you visit the Shapeways Factory of the Future in Long Island City is the dust. It’s the white nylon material that is used in laser sintering. It gets everywhere.
The second thing is the sheer number of people involved. When we talk about 3-D printing, we emphasize its seamlessness and ease of use. “Your ideas made real with Shapeways 3-D printing,” says Shapeways’ front page. It’s easy to overlook the number of steps between sending in a CAD file and getting the result delivered to your home. All of those steps involve a human.
We’d like to show you how Shapeways makes ideas real.
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!