Next week is my Wife’s birthday. She loves Minecraft so I decided to get her 3D printed versions of our Minecraft characters from Minetoys. Minetoys uses Shapeways as their “factory”. Shapeways 3D prints parts via several methods, these use printing a binder (glue) onto powder, then put more powder, print more binder, more powder, etc. See more info here.
The parts came in today, see below
My character looks a bit like Cthulhu (looks better in the game with extending tentacle head) and hers was a diamond block based character. The back of my character is wings
She was very excited and loved them. As I have been looking into these technologies, I was kind of bothered by the mistakes on the right arms of the characters. Mine has a big blob of material and hers has a divot in it. I am not sure if this is the best quality powder-binder printing can do, or if it was a just a bad print. Either way, it was an experience as my first ordered print and I’m pretty satisfied overall.
Skin files
Colecago
Kiloari
Took a bit of reverse engineering to get these. To see any player’s Minecraft Skin, use the following format
http://minecraft.net/skin/username.png
ex
http://minecraft.net/skin/Colecago.png
Stay tuned for 3D printing and CNC update/preview!
Wow, this is great. I first saw the article at blog.3dprintingmodel.com but apparently it is posted here too. Can’t wait for 3D printing to really take off! I’m still working on a bastardized 3D chocolate printer from an old CNC machine. 😉 =D, it is a work in progress.