# The Community

## [Last Chance for 100% Design Contest](/content/blog/last-chance-for-100-design-contest/index.html)
August 30, 2010
It is the final days of the the 2010 Shapeways & Despoke: 100% Design Contest so it is your last…

## [Fre3dom: 3D printing to promote self-sustaining communities](/content/blog/fre3dom-3d-printing-to-promote-self-sustaining-communities/index.html)
August 27, 2010
Ambitious project by Kidist, a third year PhD student at the University of Houston taking the FabLab idea into a…

## [Fabulous Friday](/content/blog/fabulous-friday/index.html)
August 27, 2010
Our regular Friday post to show some of what the Shapeways community have shared this past week in the It…

## [Success with Shapeways](/content/blog/success-with-shapeways/index.html)
August 25, 2010
We have started to see some real spikes of heavy traffic on Shapeways Shops based around a handful of really…

## [Shapeways Silver Samples](/content/blog/shapeways-silver-samples/index.html)
August 24, 2010
Whenever we ask the Shapeways community what materials and processes they are interested in being made available we always get…

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