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Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band

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Re: Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band

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Post by doctoboggan »

Yenrabbit wrote: post #10

A custom wedding band is a great option. I made one with a design we sketched in the sand, modelled myself, printed via shapeways. Unique, affordable, easy to replace... Much better than spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on a shiny stone :) The design can be tricky, so great to see another tool to make this easier!

Cool! I am using both Shapeways and i.materialise right now. They both seem to have the same quality (very high), but i.materialize is a little more expensive. They do however offer white label drop shipping which is nice so eventually I will probably transition to only using them.

Re: Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band

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Post by doctoboggan »

MikeKusold wrote: post #7

The waveform option looks pretty cool. What is the best way to play it back? I could see it being a very sentimental reminder in case something tragic happens.

Unfortunately I don't think there is enough information in there to actually play back. That ring was made from a screenshot of the Apple Voice Memos app.

Ultimately I want to build voice recording into my site and then I would include with the ring delivery a link to play back the recorded audio.

Re: Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band

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Post by fortran77 »

doctoboggan wrote: post #9
fortran77 wrote: post #8

BTW: The name "Lulim" is the Arameic for spiral, in Modern Hebrew there are words like "לולין" ("Lulyan" / acrobat) that take this root) See: http://www.de-bruyn.it/english/0557_lulim.shtml

I choose lulim as the name after lu-lim, the ancient Sumerian name for Saturn[0] (the planet with rings!) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet

Interesting. There's no way they could have seen the rings back then. I wonder if there's a connection.

Re: Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band

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Post by enclosure_guy »

Hey Jack, nice work! I love the idea, this is an area where customization is very valuable and automated customization like this can save a lot of time and headache.

What are you using to generate your geometry? Any plans on doing other jewelry types? One thing I could also imagine people wanting is delivery of SLA-printed prototype rings to get a better idea of the look and feel.

Re: Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band

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Post by dvirsky »

doctoboggan wrote: post #9
fortran77 wrote: post #8

BTW: The name "Lulim" is the Arameic for spiral, in Modern Hebrew there are words like "לולין" ("Lulyan" / acrobat) that take this root) See: http://www.de-bruyn.it/english/0557_lulim.shtml

I choose lulim as the name after lu-lim, the ancient Sumerian name for Saturn[0] (the planet with rings!) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet

In modern Hebrew Lulim means "chicken coops" :)

Re: Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band

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Post by doctoboggan »

enclosure_guy wrote: post #14

Hey Jack, nice work! I love the idea, this is an area where customization is very valuable and automated customization like this can save a lot of time and headache. What are you using to generate your geometry? Any plans on doing other jewelry types? One thing I could also imagine people wanting is delivery of SLA-printed prototype rings to get a better idea of the look and feel.

Thanks! To generate the geometry I first generate a bitmap image texture using fabric.js on the client side. I can then import this texture into blender and use it as a displacement map on a ring blank. I apply the displacement to the geometry and export as STL for 3d printing. Blender is scriptable so this can all be automated (although it isn't yet).

I do hope to add other jewelry types. My next idea is necklace pendants with silhouettes (I think new mothers would be the target audience there)

I have considered adding an upsell of a brass print so the customer can see how it looks and feels. I don't want to do plastics as they print using a different process and will have a different look. Brass is cheap enough that I think adding a $29 add-on to the gold or silver ring isn't too hard to swallow.

Re: Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band

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Post by kart23 »

doctoboggan wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! I built Lulim Jewelry after spending some time figuring out how to design and 3D print my own wedding band. My day job was in the 3D printing industry and I knew how far the technology had come so I busted out the CAD tools and designed a ring with my wife's fingerprint on it. I thought the processes could be much easier and thus Lulim was born. The website is built with Vue.js, Canvas.js, and Three.js.…

This is such a great idea and the pieces look fantastic. The price point seems right too, and I'm sure you'll get plenty of customers. Hopefully sometime in the future you can expand to bracelets or pendants, I think this market is overdue for something new.

I browsed through the site on my s9, and scrolling seemed to hang pretty badly, I'm guessing theres a bit too much going on client side.

Re: Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band

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Post by doctoboggan »

dvirsky wrote: post #15
doctoboggan wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I choose lulim as the name after lu-lim, the ancient Sumerian name for Saturn[0] (the planet with rings!) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet

In modern Hebrew Lulim means "chicken coops" :)

Oh no! I hope any of my potential Hebrew speaking customers have positive experiences with chicken coops.

Re: Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band

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Post by dddddaviddddd »

fortran77 wrote: post #13
doctoboggan wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I choose lulim as the name after lu-lim, the ancient Sumerian name for Saturn[0] (the planet with rings!) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet

Interesting. There's no way they could have seen the rings back then. I wonder if there's a connection.

The name doesn't refer to the rings, e.g. see "Saturn as the 'Sun of Night' in Ancient Near Eastern Tradition" in January 2013 Aula Orientalis 31(2):279-321:

> In addition, a star list identifies En-me-šár-ra with LU.LIM, the “deer-star”, while a mid-7th century Neo-Assyrian lexical text listing the seven traditional planets equates LU.LIM with UDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ (kayamānu), the planet Saturn.

Other sources translate it simply as 'ram'.

Re: Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band

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Post by doctoboggan »

kart23 wrote: post #17
doctoboggan wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! I built Lulim Jewelry after spending some time figuring out how to design and 3D print my own wedding band. My day job was in the 3D printing industry and I knew how far the technology had come so I busted out the CAD tools and designed a ring with my wife's fingerprint on it. I thought the processes could be much easier and thus Lulim was born. The website is built with Vue.js, Canvas.js, and Three.js.…

This is such a great idea and the pieces look fantastic. The price point seems right too, and I'm sure you'll get plenty of customers. Hopefully sometime in the future you can expand to bracelets or pendants, I think this market is overdue for something new. I browsed through the site on my s9, and scrolling seemed to hang pretty badly, I'm guessing theres a bit too much going on client side.

Thanks for the kind words! I definitely plan on expanding to other pieces of jewelry. It would be pretty easy to use the same techniques I've developed so far to generate pendants or other customized jewelry pieces.

Thanks for the feedback regarding scrolling. I know there is work I can do to make it better (I suspect three.js/webgl is the main culprit). Mobile is even harder, although I have tried to make sure the site is at least browsable on my iPhone.

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