We were quite surprised about the announcement this Tuesday. Just a few months ago Pinshape announced they were shutting down. So it’s nice to see Formlabs stepping in and preventing that from happening.

After the shutdown date came, they surprisingly got mysterious investment and announced they weren’t closing and had an overwhelming amount of support from the community.

We ourself opened up an account and started uploading our projects to the site.

Kerry Stevenson from Fabbaloo has an interesting post about it here.

Mystery Solved: Pinshape’s Secret Buyer Revealed

This morning, Pinshape announced that they’ve been acquired by none other than Formlabs, manufacturers of the very popular Form series of resin-based 3D printers.

Post on Pinshape
Post on Formlabs

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!