Amazing 3D Printed Objects
#14 Latticework Shoes
These plastic shoes were on display at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The intricate latticework shows the ability of 3D printing to create objects impossible with earlier manufacturing methods.
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Spider Guitar
The entire body of these spider themed guitars is printed as one single part. Designed by Olaf Diegel of New Zealand, he can manufacture these in any color with any modifications required.
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Latticework Shoes
These plastic shoes were on display at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The intricate latticework shows the ability of 3D printing to create objects impossible with earlier manufacturing methods.
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Functioning punch card reader
Before vacuum tubes or transistors, the earliest computers were mechanical, making calculations using gears and switches. This punch card reader is part of a project to build a fully functional computer through 3D printing.
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Deathly Hallows Dice
Designed for the uber-geek and Harry Potter superfan. These hollow dice can be printed by shapeways.com in materials ranging from white plastic to pure silver for the high rollers.
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Keys
This 3D printed Key shows how easy it is to customize functional objects for personal use. Here is a security tip - don't post pictures of your house keys on the internet; they are trivial to duplicate.
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Lamps
These two lamps and table tray are available from cunicode.com, designed by Bernat Cuni. They can customize any order making a unique lamp for each customer.
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Chess Pieces
This chess set was printed using transparent resin on a miicraft prototype high resolution 3D printer, available for purchase in June. There printer can create details as thin as 56 microns - that is 1/20th of a millimeter.
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Nocturnal Watch
This device is a nocturlabe, which can tell you the time at night by the position of the stars. It was printed with white plastic, but gets it's antique look by being stained overnight in a cup of strong tea.
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USA Map Belt Buckle
This patriotic bling available on shapeways.com is just one example of how customizable 3D printed objects can be used to accessorize to show people what you care about.
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Ipad/Iphone cases
This minimalist Ipad wrap, designed by Jeff Bare, can by customized with any pattern a person might want. Items like these can be printed to fit with and accessorize any of your favorite gadgets.
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Tower of London
In London, Zmapping has been building computer models of city centers with the use of scanning and photo processing techniques. This is the Tower of London and the surrounding area printed from their models.
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Giant Robot Jumping Spider
A research team in Germany is developing this plastic robotic drone that can walk and crawl. The 3D printing process can create internal structures, allowing for hydraulic articulated legs designed closer to how nature developed them.
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Concept Cars
This is only an 84 piece model built with transparent blue resin and plastic. 3D printing has been very useful to car designers who can create prototype body and mechanical parts and test them immediately.
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Your Face
With photo scanning and imaging technology, even home hobbyists can build masks or models of their own scanned objects. These professional masks printed in Japan also use a photo printing technique over the surface of the 3D printed plastic.
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3D Printers
The RepRap project started in 2005 seeking to build 3D printers that could be built on a 3D printer. Building on that research, Makerbot Industries has created a popular low-cost 3D printer, this one pictured here has been customized with a fully printed case.
