Even better when two find each other in life, like and his girlfriend, who enjoy to joke about all the mischief their giant dog-shaped plush toy might secretly get into in their absence. With the harsh facts or adulthood and reality coming for all of us eventually, it’s nice to see when some people never fully lose that as they get older. The ability to give life to inanimate objects and to pretend how they’re living their own life is precious, and not for nothing a successful story line in many movies. But why do all that punching yourself, when you could build a machine?Ĭontinue reading “Custom Music Box Cylinder Puts A Spin On Romance” → Posted in Musical Hacks Tagged Music box, music box mechanism, pythonĬhildlike imagination is a wonderful thing. If you don’t mind doing the cranking to listen to the tune, then the paper-punched type of music box is going to be much easier.
You’ll have to figure out which tune has most or all of the notes you need. The hard part will be choosing a music box mechanism, because they tend to come with a single comb that’s designed to play a specific song.
If you want to do this yourself, the code is freely available. Finally, he built the new score based on the available notes built into the music box comb. In order to generate a cylinder with the song his girlfriend likes so much, printed this scale cylinder and used it to record the notes as a single mp3 and make note of the start times of each note.
The slicing preview showed a lot of stops and starts and weak points, so generated the Gcode directly so that it would print in one continuous spiral and be much stronger. Then he used a Python script to turn it in a 3D model. started by taking the music box apart to measure the cylinder, and then created a software representation of a cylinder that’s designed to pluck the eighteen notes from low to high rather than play a song. In the end, mixed methods and made a custom cylinder that’s playable with a standard music box mechanism. Then there’s those paper punch ones, but you have to sit there and crank the thing continuously to hear the song. could have printed the whole thing, but those don’t sound as good with their plastic combs. But they don’t have everything, of course - certainly not that one song from that TV series that ’ girlfriend absolutely adores.īut it’s 2021, and there are options for making your own music box.
These days, they even make some with slightly more modern tunes, like the Zelda and Star Wars themes. Music boxes are awesome little mechanical devices.
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