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Enameled photography Copper plates with enamel and ceramic digital prints, by Clara Ostman

Photographs by Ezra Stoller

The Low Fi Hi Tech Headphones are an exploration into building a pair of fully functional headphones without any line-produced part. Composed of just wire, tape, solder, magnets and a few 3D printed parts, the design is surprisingly not rickety and the sound quality is nice against all expectations. In a sense, it’s lo-fi in both audio and material quality! —Want to print your own? Designer JC Karich’s 3D printing files are available here!

Designer: JC Karich

Love letter to plywood by Tom Sachs! brought tears to my eyes! 

OMG

I wouldn’t mind waking up looking at these colours!

Eames Lounge Chair Debut 1956 on NBC. Really cool video!

Butterfly Tea

Beautiful packaging design! Who wouldn’t but this tea to see a butterfly sitting on your cup?

Designer: Yena Lee

DrawBraille Mobile Phone is one of the most compelling concepts that focus on making mobile phones easy-to-use for the blind. The entire UI and input keys are in Braille and even the touch panel reflects this system. The design and approach have a surreal finish to it and I am quite sure that Shikun Sun is on to something big with this!

Designer: Shikun Sun

Created using Processing, ModelBuilder Library by Marius Watz and a 3D printer, Amanda Ghassaei at instructables managed to print a 33rpm music record that actually doesn’t sound too bad considering the limitations of currently available 3d printing technologies. These records play on regular turntables, with regular needles, at regular speeds, just like any vinyl record.  Though the audio output from these records has a sampling rate of 11kHz (a quarter of typical mp3 audio) and 5-6bit resolution (mp3 audio is 16 bit), it is still easily recognisable.

The records were printed on a UV-cured resin printer called the Objet Connex500.  This printer has a very high resolution: 600dpi in the x and y axes and 16 microns in the z axis, some of the highest resolution possible with 3D printing at the moment. Despite all this precision, Amanda writes that the Objet still at least an order of magnitude or two away from the resolution of a real vinyl record.  Her hope is that despite the lack of vinyl-quality precision, she would still be able to produce something recognizable by approximating the groove shape as accurately as possible with the tools she had.

In this Instructable, she demonstrate how she developed the workflow that can convert any audio file, of virtually any format, into a 3D model of a record.

So, just before you put your old record player into storage you may want to wait a little longer because 3d printing is just about to give it a whole new life.

3D Printed Record on Instructables | Record models on the 123D gallery as well as the Pirate Bay.

Check out videos of it here and here.

Very cool looking headphones from Aedle a Paris based audio startup specialized in the manufacturing of high-end headphones. They come in two variants the Classic and the Carbon.

The Classics are made with the ever popular aircraft aluminum and the lux lambskin leather, and the Carbon are limited edition.