Pony Life #shapeways

The funny hurts so good. #shapeways (at Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden)

“Customers are no longer just consumers; they’re co-creators. They aren’t just passive members of an audience; they are active members of a community. They want to be a part of something; to belong; to influence; to engage. It’s not enough that they feel good about your purpose. They want it to be their purpose too. They don’t want to be at the other end of your for. They want to be right there with you. Purpose needs to be shared.”

Mark Boncheck on shared purpose. This speaks to what we’re looking to accomplishing at Shapeways with our customers.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/03/purpose_is_good_shared_purpose.html

Modibot fight. #3dprinted #shapeways (at Shapeways HQ)

3D Print All The Voxels

You know what’s better than voxels? 3D printing your voxels. Here’s how to print your voxels with this great Node Package 

https://npmjs.org/package/voxel-print

Usage

First you need to connect to ShapeWays, which is pretty easy to do:

var lpr3d = require("voxel-print")({
      username: "Your ShapeWays Username",
      password: "Your ShapeWays Password"
    });

And then you can print stuff by just calling lpr3d:

lpr3d(voxels, function(err, result) {
  if(err) {
    console.log("Error uploading:", err);
    return;
  }
  console.log("Uploaded model:", result.model_id, ", url:", result.url);
});

This holiday season is going to be crazy. #Shapeways

continuations:

A couple of years ago Shapeways was a tiny company based in the Netherlands with a big idea: providing 3D printing as an on demand service and marketplace. Following an investment from Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures the company relocated to New York City (and recently…