Still Time (Barely) to Print and Ship Your Part for the First “We the Builders” Crowdprinted Statue! #3DThursday #3DPrinting #3DScanning #3D
There is still time (ship to deliver on Monday!) to participate in the first We the Builders crowdprinted project, a larger-than-life bust of George Washington as scanned in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Next week, all of the parts will be assembled and displayed at the 2014 NY 3D Print Show!
Sign-up and print one — heck, I’m printing my part for the cause! — and join what is shaping up to be a veritable “Who’s Who” of the desktop 3D printing community….
We are working to build a full 1:1 scale copy of a statue in the style of Giuseppe Ceracchi‘s odd neoclassical “Bust of George Washington” (1791-1792).
In order to replicate this statue, we have sliced the scanned model into 110 easy-to-print sections that are ready for fabrication. We need your help to crowdsource the printing of this monument, one cube at a time, and ship back your contributions to Baltimore where they will be reunited, stacked, and glued into a new replica of a copy of this statue. Together, we can build it!
Snapshot of contributors — and part-count leaderboard — for the project below:
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