Let's Create Pottery 3D Printing From Your Phone or Tablet

Just when you think 3D printing couldn’t get any cooler  – 3D printing of shoes or food courtesy of Cornell University’s Creative Machine Lab  — or scary, via Wiki Weapon an open source project that’s already raised $20,000 to create a downloadable open-source schematic users can follow to print their own weapons at home. A French company steps up the 3D printing game.

France‘s Sculpteo recently teamed with Polish publishing company, Infinate Dreams (iOS and Android) to create a mobile app that lets you design and paint pottery on your smartphone or tablet, send it directly from your device to be 3D printed and then mailed to anyone you want, anywhere in the world.

The app, called Let’s Create! lets you “throw the clay on the virtual wheel” and utilize dozens of materials and colors to create your own unique designs.

“By integrating our 3D printing platform into Let’s Create! Pottery app shows how easy it is to integrate 3D printing into online shops,” said Clément Moreau, CEO and Co-Founder of Sculpteo. “Ihis partnership demonstrates how ineluctably the division between the digital world and real world is disappearing thanks to 3D printing technology.”

Sculpteo prides itself on its 3D printing Cloud engine which lets shops and designers  embed 3D printing options  into their online shop, they call it a factory in the cloud. You don’t have to have any technical knowledge nor run around looking for pottery classes or even mold that clay. Which in fact, one could say, isn’t such a great thing since you are missing the real experience of physically molding the clay.

But the Let’s Create! Pottery app has a social aspect for sharing your creations – you can upload and view other people’s creations on the community portal and to date, virtual potters have shared more than 250,000 virtual pots created, each one with unique patterns and shapes.

Even though apps, mobile phones and 3D printing have made things easier for us and gives more people access to activities they might not normally engage in, what happens to our psyche when we no longer know what it feels like to sculpt an object, feel clay between our fingers or touch objects to acknowledge our existence. Only time will tell. [Forbes]

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