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.
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/
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…..
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? 🙂