This week’s selection is the detailed reconstruction of the Divje Babe Bone Flute by Matt Gilbert.
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Design of the Week: 3D Printed Electric Guitar Kit
This week’s selection is the Cateran 3D Printed Electric Guitar Kit by Filatone Instrument Co.
Can 3D Printing Be the Technology That Helps Bring Music to the Environmentally-Savvy Consumer?
A resurgence in popularity for vinyl music coincided with the democratization of 3D printing technologies.
Expanding Workforce Training for 3D Printing
ss various ways in which companies and organizations are providing opportunities for a current and future workforce to foster and fine-tune their 3D printing skillset.
Design of the Week: 3D Printed Guitar That Lights Up
This week’s selection is a 3D Printed Guitar That Lights Up by Joshua Henderson.
Additive Manufacturing: Bridging The Gap From Craft To Automation
What happens when your skilled craft workers retire? You switch to additive manufacturing. See the details in this interesting case study.
How They Made It: The Indestructible 3D Printed Guitar
There are a few abilities you need to prove you’re a proper rockstar.
The 3D Printed Guitar That Rock Built
Or, rather, the 3D printed guitar that rock didn’t un-build: meet the smash-proof guitar.
How 3D Printing is Changing Music Forever
The technology of 3D printing has opened an entirely new, nearly limitless medium for instrument makers and artists.
Turning on an Entire Industry to 3D Printing With a Flying Car
There’s a very interesting story that’s slowly being told, industry after industry. This is one of them.
Design of the Week: Hovalin 3D Printed Violin
This week’s selection is the majestic 3D printed violin by Matt Hova of Hova Labs.
Autodesk’s PrintOne Enables Safe Generation of 3D Printed Musical Instruments
Designing a musical instrument just got a lot simpler thanks to an experiment by Autodesk.
Look Out For 3D Printed Musician Merchandise!
A partnership between Source3 and CD Baby could lead to an explosion of 3D printed merchandise.
Jazz Musician Needs 3D Printing Assistance
Musician Paul Hirsch has been developing a new type of “wholetone-tuned panpipe”, but now requires assistance to determine how to 3D print them in production form.
Retro Items Revived With 3D Printing
A report by Stuart Fraser at Makerflux describes how someone revived the idea of a classic jukebox with 3D printing.
First 3D Printed Album?
A new Kickstarter project proposes to “create the first album recorded entirely on 3D printed instruments.”
Design of the Week: World’s First 3D Printed Melodica
This week’s selection is Daren Banarsë’s beautiful and functional 3D printed Melodica.
Restoring 19th Century Musical Instruments with 3D Printing
An incredible research project at the UConn has managed to bring several 19th century musical instruments back to life.
Joy Division’s Famous Cover is 3D Printed
The iconic cover for Joy Division’s 1979 hit album Unknown Pleasures has been 3D printed. German designer Michael Zoellner wanted to print Peter Saville’s design, which was based on an extra-terrestrial pulsar signal. Unfortunately, he ran into trouble right away: I could not find a single vector graphic or 3D model anywhere. There are… Continue reading Joy Division’s Famous Cover is 3D Printed
3D Printed Tonearm; Vinyl Not Dead!
A report on AnalogPlanet details and experimental 3D printed “tonearm”. That’s the piece that holds the “needle” that “reads” a vinyl record on a turntable. For those of you who have lived beyond the era of CD’s, a previous era involved “vinyl records”, played by these turntable things. It turns out they’re still… Continue reading 3D Printed Tonearm; Vinyl Not Dead!
The Zoybar 3D Printed Guitar
It seems there is growing interest in 3D printed musical instruments. After the amazing 3D printed flute we now see another 3D printed guitar: The Zoybar TOR. This funky item is composed of a small number of parts (three) printed by Shapeways. Designed by Bård S D, this item is not available for sale… Continue reading The Zoybar 3D Printed Guitar
Decades-Old Custom Guitar Scanned
Imagine designing amazingly intricate, one-of-a-kind electric guitar bodies years ago – and now wishing you could document your work while you still can. Then Imagine trying to produce a detailed 3D model of the guitar shown in the image here – with conventional measuring tools. Yep, you’d be there a very long time, and… Continue reading Decades-Old Custom Guitar Scanned
Printing Musical Instruments
Tipster Jb pointed us at a video of a rather startling project: Printing a complete musical instrument. In this case, MIT Media Lab researcher Amit Zoran attempted to print an entire and working flute in one operation. We’re not sure if printing an object of this complexity has ever been attempted before; we’ve seen some… Continue reading Printing Musical Instruments
Print Your Guitar
Every one of us is a specialist in something, and our belief is that great things happen when different specialists intersect to combine the expertise from different disciplines. One such collision recently took place at RedEyeOnDemand, a popular 3D print service. It turns out that Tim Thellin and several co-workers at RedEye are… Continue reading Print Your Guitar
Radiohead Data Becomes a Head!
About a year ago, Radiohead released a great video of “House of Cards”, much of which was singer Thom Yorke’s face and head illuminated by teeny points of laser light. Very inventive, for certain, but they went a step further: Radiohead released CSV files the point cloud on Google Code for public access under a… Continue reading Radiohead Data Becomes a Head!
More Acoustical Objects
Architectradure reports on yet another experiment with sound making devices produced by 3D printing technology, following up on our recent acoustical post. In this experiment, designer and engineer Amit Zoran has produced a unique guitar by assembling parts designed with software and produced by a 3D printer. Using specialized software, Zoran designed chambers suitable for… Continue reading More Acoustical Objects