Category Archives: 3D Printing

Personalized 3D Printed PC Fan Grill

Here’s something for customizing your good ol’ PC, personalized fan grills! (Not fan girls.) Personalized Fan Grill 80mm Personalized Fan Grill 92mm Personalized Fan Grill 120mm Fan Grill 80mm Fan…

Message from the future

So, last week I received a package that’s dated next week. It contained a sample part from Stratasys printed on a Fortus machine. Looks pretty good and feels very strong…

Full Color 3D Print Color Palette

One problem with printing stuff in color using typical CMYK printing ink, is that it’s often difficult to get the exact color you want. This color palette shows the color…

Figure Prototype Stand

Another thing I’m working on at the moment. This is a figurine stand designed specifically for prototype figures. It basically allows you to place pretty much any figure on it,…

Personalized 3D Printed Keychain

I did some revisions to the 3d printed keychain, which I previously used to make the video with the hammer. Received the new 3d print in the mail last week,…

Hana Figurine 3D Print

The 3d print arrived! Here are some pictures of the figurine, which has a height of about 17cm by the way: You can order your own copy of this print…

Watercoloring Shapeways’ White Strong & Flexible

Coloring test on Shapeways’ White Strong & Flexible 3D printing material, using Winsor & Newton watercolors and Letraset ProMarkers. With watercolors it is possible to make soft gradients between colors,…

Shapeways’ Full Color ‘Sandstone’ Strength Test

Here’s the video where I fail to break the thing in two by hand, and therefore resort to a hammer. Spoiler: the printed thing does not survive. Printed by Shapeways…

3D print samples from Shapeways

Got some nice 3d print samples from Shapeways.

A 3d color test print

To try out the ‘Full Color Sandstone’ material at Shapeways, I ordered a print for a simple but obviously colorful test piece. The material kind of feels like a small…