{"id":39796,"date":"2012-10-26T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/?p=39796"},"modified":"2018-03-20T23:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T06:11:48","slug":"create-your-own-jewelry-by-mapping-your-favorite-places-with-meshu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/maker-success-stories\/create-your-own-jewelry-by-mapping-your-favorite-places-with-meshu\/","title":{"rendered":"Create your own jewelry by mapping your favorite places with Meshu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ponoko-made products from Meshu founders Rachel Binx and Sha Hwang<\/p>\n

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When Rachel first moved to San Francisco, she was looking for work and knew she wanted a job in data visualization. “I was using Twitter to find potential contacts,” Rachel says. “Sha was gracious enough to meet me for dinner, and the rest is history!”<\/p>\n

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Jewelry Making For Beginners<\/h2>\n

Everything you need to know about jewelry making for beginners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See the ultimate guide here<\/a><\/div>\n

The two of them hit it off, eventually moving in together in a sunny carriage house in the Mission. And yes, Rachel landed a great job at a design studio. But the story doesn’t stop there. <\/p>\n

Last year, Rachel and Sha sat down in a tea house and started brainstorming ideas for a side project: something that could combine their skills in design and data visualization with their love of travel.<\/p>\n

The result was Meshu<\/a> \u2014 a web-based app that brings together data visualization and digital fabrication. <\/p>\n

Meshu lets you design products like necklaces, earrings, and cufflinks based on the connecting lines of various places.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

For example, you could create a design using your Foursquare checkins or the route you took on your epic road trip. And you could have that design turned into a pair of one-of-a-kind lasercut earrings or 3D printed cufflinks.<\/p>\n

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Meshu lasercuts the design with Ponoko in your choice of amber bamboo<\/a>, white acrylic<\/a>, or black acrylic<\/a> and ships the final product with a map postcard.<\/p>\n

Rachel’s favorite Meshu design so far is this one of South America.
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But it’s not just the jewelry that’s beautiful. The map used in the Meshu interface is really lovely. “It’s a lighter version of the Stamen Toner map<\/a>,” explains Sha. (For any developers out there, the maps are available for use under a CC license.)<\/p>\n

You can make your own map-turned-jewelry design at Meshu.io\/make<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ponoko-made products from Meshu founders Rachel Binx and Sha Hwang<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

When Rachel first moved to San Francisco, she was looking for work and knew she wanted a job in data visualization. “I was using Twitter to find potential contacts,” Rachel says. “Sha was gracious enough to meet me for dinner, and the rest is history!”<\/p>\n

Jewelry Making For Beginners<\/p>\n

Everything you need to know about jewelry making for beginners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,1066,5796],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-manufacturing","category-maker-success-stories","category-design-ideas"],"yoast_head":"\nCreate your own jewelry by mapping your favorite places with Meshu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/maker-success-stories\/create-your-own-jewelry-by-mapping-your-favorite-places-with-meshu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Create your own jewelry 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