music and 3D printing
3D Printed Clamp Helps Iowa State University Marching Band Waste Less Paper
Many people these days are doing their best to cut back on unsustainable practices, such as single-use plastic, powder waste in the AM industry, and wasting paper, in support of…
Music to Our Ears: Winner of Canada’s 3D Printed Musical Instrument Challenge Announced
We often hear stories of people who need 3D printed prosthetics and assistive devices to play their chosen instrument, be it the cello, the drums, or the piano. And as materials…
Turn Color Into Sound with Innovative Specdrums Rings, Created with the Help of 3D Printing
From 3D printed violins and guitars to a modular synthesizer and arpeggiator, 3D printing technology has often been used to help musicians play that funky (and classical) music. A creative group of…
Swedish Singer-Songwriter Writes a Pop Song About a 3D Printed Tumor Model – and It’s Really Good!
Most of the time, when we write about 3D printed medical models here at 3DPrint.com, we talk about how they can help surgeons plan out complex surgeries ahead of time,…
Autodesk Research Collaborates with Dartmouth College to Design and 3D Print Free-Form Wind Instruments
Like many junior high school students, I opted to choose an instrument to study and play in the school’s musical ensemble, or band, though I had a college professor who…
In the Mood for Some Music? Check Out This 3D Printed Formlabs Violin & New Rhett Price Video!
While we have had our great writers, painters, and a multitude of famous artists throughout history to inspire and allow us to appreciate so many mediums, sometimes it seems nothing…
Fender Reaches Out to the General Consumer Market with 3D Printed Inner Ear Monitor Headphones
In 1965, Bob Dylan dismayed fans at the Newport Folk Festival by doing something decidedly un-folksy – pulling out an electric guitar and rocking. His fans, expecting one of the acoustic…
Lady Gaga and Intel Paid Tribute to David Bowie at the 2016 Grammys with Help from Smart Technology, Robots and 3D Printing
If you think about it, there’s really no better person to pay tribute to David Bowie than Lady Gaga. Theatrical, androgynous, and wildly creative, the two have created some of the…
Is the Death of the Music Industry a Warning to be Heeded Regarding 3D Printing & Manufacturing?
I was just having a conversation with a friend yesterday regarding the music industry. We’d both seen a clip of Joe Walsh discussing basically how hopeless, bleak, and dead the…
