Music 250a -- Lecture 10

Digital Fabrication (3D Printing)

Romain Michon and Doug McCausland (TA)

What is Digital Fabrication?

The Advent of DIY Culture

Important Printing Parameters

  • Infill
  • Walls Thickness
  • Printing Speed

3d Printing Musical Instruments

Olaf Diegel's Electric Guitars

Scott Summit's 3D Printed Acoustic Guitar

Hovalin: an Open Source 3D Printable Violin

The 3D Varius

Amit Zoran's 3D Printed Flute

3D Printed Microtonal Flute

John Granzow and Marlo Kohn's Pretzl Flute

John Granzow's Daxophone with 3D Printed Tongues

Augmenting/Recycling: John Granzow's Javalele

Exploring Mouthpiece Shapes

Hybrid Saxophone Experiments: Active Control on a Reed

VoxVoxel by John Granzow and Fernando Lopez Lezcano