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A 3D printed record that plays on any record player

While 3D printing has come a long way very quickly, printing with a fine enough level of detail to print a plastic record is still out of reach for most printers. A 3D printing enthusiast named Amanda Ghassaei has developed a technique for turning the sound files from an mp3 into a record that works on any normal record player.

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24 Dec, 2012

posted 24 December, 2012
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Sampling vinyl records the hard way, by cutting out pieces of one and grafting it to another

Musicians have been remixing and resampling albums for decades, but never like this. Spanish artist Ishac Bertran uses a laser cutter to precisely slice holes in one record and then slice out a piece of another, where the two are then joined into a single physical thing.