Another 3D Printing Project for the World Cup
3D printing artists and companies are very much into this year’s World Cup, and of course the technique enables people to be creative and come up with some funny World Cup inventions. Earlier on, we told you about LeapFrog’s hand soccer game, the SambaCan by 3Dwergen, and the KXX percussion rings by designer Michel Cornelissen. Well, we got another World Cup initiative and it comes from Ultimaker. The company releases 3D printable mascots, which you can download for free and print them out.
They created files for 16 unique country-related Mascots, and you can print out the mascot that suits your own country. This process even involves 2D printing, as you can 2D print the flag from your country, so your mascot will have something to put in his hands. The files are all on YouMagine.
The company writes: “The World Cup is a special event that only takes place every 4 years. Soccer fans from all over the world are united during the exciting matches. 3D-printing spans the entire world as well, that’s why Ultimaker decided to launch something special for people to enjoy during the World Cup.”
Ultimaker is a Dutch 3D printing company from Geldermalsen. It strikes us that every 3D printing artist or company with a World Cup open-source project we’ve been writing about so far is from Holland. Is this just a coincidence, or is the Dutch 3D printing community just more creative when it comes to soccer and 3D printing? ’1-0 for Holland’, seems to be the right conclusion.