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13Recent Blog Posts
XYZ experience
We shot a promo video of the ‘XYZ expo’ experience for the people who haven’t been there yet. For those visiting Amsterdam in the next couple of weeks the expo will run until the 2nd of June. Hope to see you there!
Aluminium Casting of 3D printed parts
A while back we posted a blog about aluminum casting involving 3D printed PLA by Jeshua (3DTOPO). He has used this technique for several of his parts now and decided to post a longer tutorial on youtube plus a shorter video (see bellow) that shows the highlights.
Take a look!
Toy Design Challenge
We are pleased to present to you, the Ultimaker Toy Design Challenge in collaboration with our partners at Grabcad.
Here is an excerpt of the challenge on their website:
‘Ultimaker is one of the best-known and best-selling 3D printers on the market. Many people use their Ultimakers to create toys for their young ones or friends. We want you to be creative and have fun creating your design! Basically toy around with your thoughts, put them into CAD form, and then submit.’
The challenge has gone live and will continue until the 5th of June. There is a whole range of Ultimaker prizes you can win, check out Grabcad for more details. Everybody can view the entries of our contest, here. There are already some very cool submissions! Here is an interesting one by Rade Jovanovic ‘Torus puzzle’:
The judges for this contest are:
Protospace Team (Fablab in Utrecht and birthplace of Ultimaker).
Ground3d Team, the Dutch 3D printing platform.
James Woodcock, Editor, TCT Magazine.
Dan Costa, Editor-in-Chief, PCMag.com
Kaspar Kils, GrabCAD, Engineer.
Eetu Kuneinen, Co-founder, 3dprintingindustry.com
Ultimaker Team.
Entries will be judged based on creativity, feasibility in 3D printing on an Ultimaker, and overall coolness 
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Stay tuned for more info!
Ultimaker at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013.
From Saturday 18th May until Sunday 19th May we will be at Maker Faire Bay Area in San Fransisco. Well, actually we will be there TWICE, since Ultimaker will be apart of the regular Maker Faire and the Makershed.
Our Maker Faire stand is 316 (see red box):
In the Makershed we will be at ’3d Printing’ venue and you will have the opportunity to buy Ultimakers (kit & assembled) at our stand (limited availability).
For the US costumers that means you don’t pay for transportation cost or import cost + we will add a little something to sweeten the deal.
Hope to see you there!
Cura bug fixes
Our R&D department has fixed some issues on our open source slicing platform Cura. Both for the Windows and Mac version, here you can download the new version of Cura.
The fixes are:
* Fix: preference window failed to open properly on Mac.
* Fix: mac “E steps preference” not used in actual GCode.
* Fix: serial port settings not functioning for USB printing on Mac.
* Fix: bed temperature not working for Mac.
* Update: added keyboard support to switch layers in slicing viewer*.
* Fix: objects turned black in some mirror & rotation uses.
* Fix: slicing objects with Russian filenames.
* Fix: saving projects in the project planner.
* Update: default profiles (low/mid/high quality) have been tweaked for improved prints.
* Fix: dual-extrusion slicing with 2 parts no longer stops at the lowest object.
* Improved: installation on Linux.
* Fix: defaults to full screen.
 
* Now you can use your arrow keys in the sliced layers menu.
Perpetual Plastic Project At ING Bank
Check out the photos of the Perpetual plastic Project (PPP) rocking it with their Ultimaker at ING Bank. They design the lion themselves (for 3D) and it looks kinda cool with the white cord and all .
Upcoming Ulti-evening event
Monday 6th of May (next week) we will have our Ulti-evening event at Protospace in Utrecht (see directions). This is an excellent time to meet-up with other Ulti-heads and their machines, but the Ulti-evening is not only for those who have an Ultimaker, everyone who is interested in 3D printing or wants to see the Ultimaker in action is more than welcome.
The speaker line-up for this evening:
- Gijs Houdijk from Colorfabb, this is an up-and-coming Dutch PLA distributor whose ‘soft touch PLA’ has impressed many of us, here at the office. We have also blogged about them.
- Paul Steenbrink and his wife are jewelers who use their Ultimaker to rapid prototype their designs and later cast them in gold, check out their website.
The schedule:
17:00-18:00  Set-up your Ultimaker (if you brought one) and start mingling with the crowd.
18:00-18:30  Give your order for ‘take away’ (10 euro pp).
18:30-19:45Â Â FOOD!
20:00-21:30Â Â Presentations.
21:30-22:30Â Â Possibility to mingle again.
22:30-22:45 Â Closing the evening.
See you there!
Protospace & Ultimaker
