Today I had the chance to use my 3D printer in a most novel way… by thanking the nursing staff of the maternity ward who have been looking after my wife and new daughter.
Through the power of 3D printing I was able to quickly turn the ink foot print they took into a Pink PLA plastic “token” of our appreciation… to scale of course.
If I were super slick, I would have packed the PrintrBot Simple into the car with a 12V to 120V converter and just printed them in the hospital parking lot.
This idea turned out so well that I’m sure I’ll be making a bunch more for friends and family.
Congratulations @AtomJaay!
Love the personalized gifts you’ve made and look forward to seeing that mobile 3D printing Hub hooked up to your car battery!
Software to #3dprint#footprint@GIMP_Official@shapeways 2D to 3D app @netfabb@SketchUp@meshmixer@simplify3d The shapeways app does the same, but I find without smooth transition of gradient you can get rough surface rather than sloping mounds.
This is awesome! One thing I did when I was making stamps from images, was export it as a SVG. You can then import that SVG in Tinkercad to get in ‘3D’.
If you know anybody who works with the Shapeways APP builder ShapeJS I would love to talk to them. I would really like to make this process a seamless shapeways experience that can create these from an uploaded image and add a backing plus custom text.
Download and order one through 3DHubs locally or directly from shapeways. Make some money for other Hubs and get a College Fund going for the little one.
