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AWESOME!
Seems like something a happy robot would do. Kinda WALL
Comment by DigiSage — November 17, 2009 @ 5:01 am
So how long did this take to figure out?
Comment by Chris — November 17, 2009 @ 5:41 am
Kids these days. In my day, we used to do that sort of trick with impact line printers.
Comment by Craig — November 17, 2009 @ 10:02 am
That’s almost pornographic. Awesome.
Comment by Eric — November 17, 2009 @ 10:18 am
Now, drive the laser, cut a pattern and then build one that can decode the path on that to reproduce the music. Modern day equivalent of Edison’s wax cylinder!
Comment by Sean — November 17, 2009 @ 11:01 am
Comment by Matt — November 17, 2009 @ 9:39 pm
woahhaaa
thats realy great
Comment by Andreas — November 18, 2009 @ 4:30 pm
superb….
Comment by jeffrey — November 20, 2009 @ 12:15 pm
sounds like a series of farts
mario farts!
Comment by lolz — December 17, 2009 @ 4:13 pm
i can’t think of a better use for a laser cutter
Comment by matt — December 17, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
i wanna know what it cut out
Comment by spc_cwby — December 18, 2009 @ 2:53 pm
WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST SEE???
Hey look a bar moving from right to left…then back again!!!
Freak’in AWOME…do it again!!! do it again!!!
Comment by Jack Hoff — December 22, 2009 @ 11:16 am
You could always try turning on the sound instead of complaining like a moron, Jack.
Comment by Derp — December 23, 2009 @ 1:04 am
bravo, well done
Comment by Ukasuy — December 28, 2009 @ 2:13 am
I’m curious…how does the movement of the laser cutter produce more than one tone simultaneously during the harmonized parts?
Comment by adam — December 29, 2009 @ 8:19 pm
There are two different movement mechanisms, one for each dimension. Thus, two sounds are capable of being made at once.
Comment by Jon — January 5, 2010 @ 2:28 am
odly odly satisfying
Comment by aido179 — April 15, 2010 @ 7:36 am
It’s shopped
Comment by wowsers — April 15, 2010 @ 8:40 am
Wow, that looks cool. Must have taken a long time to make a driver for this… But when you finally get the driver I bet you can play everything you want
Comment by Tim — April 26, 2010 @ 7:12 am
Yeah, I was curious about those non-mono tone parts. But if there are two mechanisms for the X and Y then it could happen. But I would think you tell the cutter to go to a coordinate and it goes. You would have to control the speed for different frequencies. The computer files that these things can cut from don’t specify any speed. I figured it would be same speed. I guess driver hack. Probably burn out the motor hitting a high note one day lol
Comment by bittramp — April 26, 2010 @ 8:00 pm
OK, now let’s hear Megaman 2.
Comment by Dr. Wily — April 30, 2010 @ 11:52 pm
Whhaaaa!
I literally ROLFed.
Comment by Jessica — May 2, 2010 @ 9:09 pm
see this video where you can hear the Comodore 64 floppy drive doing the same thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o
Comment by C64 was doing it — May 3, 2010 @ 2:26 pm
AWE’F'ing’SOME!!!!! Would you by any chance be working on the Star Wars tune next?
Comment by chriswhyte — May 4, 2010 @ 6:02 am
g-code king
Comment by Naska — May 7, 2010 @ 11:34 pm
g-code king
Comment by Naska — May 7, 2010 @ 11:34 pm
Isnt this simply achieved by hooking up the output of a standard audio amplifier to the contacts of the two arm motors? The A/C current changes frequency due to the audio signal thus changing the speed of the DC motors? Kind of like when a hard drive is hooked directly to the outputs of an amp.
Comment by Dustin — May 8, 2010 @ 12:07 am
Actually there looks to be 3 axis’. The work surface can move up and down (z-axis) as well.
Comment by Revan — May 8, 2010 @ 5:50 pm
HP scanners will play music if you know how to put them in the ‘mood’ (mode) Usually by pressing a scan button while powering them on….
Comment by ron — May 8, 2010 @ 10:04 pm
HP scanners will play music if you know how to put them in the ‘mood’ (mode) Usually by pressing a scan button while powering them on….
Comment by ron — May 8, 2010 @ 10:04 pm
I don’t believe it.
Comment by Josh — May 8, 2010 @ 10:13 pm
I don’t believe it.
Comment by Josh — May 8, 2010 @ 10:13 pm
That’s awesome. Made me smile today. Thanks for sharing!
Comment by MrGroove — May 9, 2010 @ 2:32 pm
Absolutely Brilliant!!!
Love your work
Comment by Jonny5 — May 9, 2010 @ 6:13 pm
Absolutely Brilliant!!!
Comment by Jonny5 — May 9, 2010 @ 6:17 pm
neat
Comment by becca — May 9, 2010 @ 9:50 pm
neat
Comment by becca — May 9, 2010 @ 9:50 pm
I wanna learn how to do that so I can do star wars theme ,love it
Comment by Cyberman — May 11, 2010 @ 3:40 am
I wanna learn how to do that so I can do star wars theme ,love it
Comment by Cyberman — May 11, 2010 @ 3:40 am
not as epic as 2 tesla coils
Comment by Oshikiru — June 5, 2010 @ 3:40 am
totally fake! Everyone knows you can’t cut a laser.
Comment by RandomDeity — June 10, 2010 @ 11:56 pm
There used to be a program that allowed the floppy drive on your Amiga computer to play Simon & Garfunkle’s “El Condor Pasa”
Comment by PENFOLD — June 11, 2010 @ 12:20 am