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Tuesday, January 24. 2012

Video of 3D Printed Record Playing 'Still Alive' from Portal

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A 3D printed record for the Fisher-Price record player playing 'Still Alive' from Portal. Made by Fastness, The tune and model were all generated in Processing. Delightful project took 6 months of iteration that can now be purchased from the Fastness Shapeways Shop.

Posted by Duann in What's Hot at 16:10

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It's crazy when you see that less than a year ago it was still a 1st april joke: http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2011/04/01/makerbot-introduces-3d-printable-vinyl-records/
#1 Xavier on 2012-01-24 16:26 (Reply)
Yeah, Zcorp got it to work a while back too, but they never released a recording or video of the actual sound

http://mcad3dprintingandprototyping.blogspot.com/2010/09/groovyexe.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opVPjULDNTs

I think they were too scared that the Beastie Boys would get iIl on them.....
#1.1 Duann on 2012-01-24 16:53 (Reply)
Develop3D covered the ZPrinter story as well: http://develop3d.com/blog/z-corp-feeling-groovy
Will Lady Gaga's next record be released as an STL file? :-)
#1.1.1 Jean on 2012-01-27 20:02 (Reply)
I've spent almost a full day trying to work out if this technology was just an internet joke or not. OK, I've fallen for it.
I think it's real, you can all start laughing at me now.
#2 Ade (Homepage) on 2012-01-26 11:28 (Reply)

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