Awakenings Logo Round

Do you like Techno music? I do so made this cool 3D printable Awakenings logo using 3D Builder which is very easy. You can print it in one color or use color-change in PrusaSlicer to make it dual-color like in my pictures. The example is printed in Fillamentum PLA Traffic White and PLA Extrafil Vertigo Chocolate in 0.2mm layers on the Prusa MINI. I also used the Ironing feature which is not great with a sparkly material like this one. It does look very cool with a light source behind it too. 

I also prepared some dual- and single-color gcodes for the Prusa MINI(+) and Prusa i3 MK3S(+) for you to use if you don't feel like slicing yourself today. ;-) All gcode files are made for Prusament PLA but any other PLA will work fine. 

Have fun printing this one and I am excited to hear your thoughts!  

Some info about Awakenings. (source: Wikipedia)

Awakenings is the collective name of techno parties that have been organized since 1997 by events agency Monumental Productions BV. The parties sometimes have a theme that has to do with techno music, such as minimal, Detroit, Schranz, Drumcode, or Kne'deep. The venue used for indoor events is usually the Gashouder in Amsterdam and the Spaarnwoude recreational area between Amsterdam and Haarlem for outdoor festivals.

The name Awakenings has to do with the resurrection of Jesus. The first party was around Easter and organizer Rocco Veenboer realized that he did not know what the Easter party meant. After he discovered that at Easter, among other things, the resurrection of Jesus is celebrated, the name Awakenings arose.

The cradle of Awakenings is located in the Gasholder of the Westergasfabriek, in the Westerpark in Amsterdam with its famous Acoustics. There, the very first edition started on March 30, 1997, with the DJs Angelo, Billy Nasty, Derrick May, Dimitri, Godard, and Nick Rapaccioli.

In 2000, the festival moved to the Now & Wow in Rotterdam because the Westergasfabriek was renovated. After that, the parties were held alternately in the Now & Wow and the NDSM in Amsterdam.

On February 18, 2005, the Westergasfabriek came back into use as a permanent location.

In October 2006, the Amsterdam police carried out checks at an Awakeningsfeest in the Gashouder in which 131 arrests were made. A second check at an Awakeningsfeest in November resulted in 82 arrests. The Awakeningsfeest at the NDSM wharf on December 31 was not granted a permit by the municipality due to negative advice from the police and fire brigade. According to Awakenings organizer Rocco Veenboer, there was arbitrariness because similar parties at the same location were licensed. In a city council meeting on December 15, Mayor Job Cohen stated that on December 31, 2006, the police could not guarantee safety because too many hard drugs had been found in the last editions of Awakenings.

In 2008, the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven was the setting for the first time.

Since 2012, Awakenings organizes parties during Amsterdam Dance Event in the Gashouder.

Foreign expansion followed in 2014 with editions in London, New York, Manchester, and Antwerp. In addition, events at other festivals were held in Australia, India, Brazil and in the United States.

In 2015, the organization behind Awakenings was taken over by SFX, now called LiveStyle.

In 2017, Awakenings' 20th anniversary was celebrated with the publication of the book Awakenings, 20 years of techno.

In 2020, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Awakenings was organized as a free online event, with the DJ performances filmed at Gashouder and streamed live via social network channels.