This laser cutter plays the Super Mario Brother theme.
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Thatās pretty fantastic.
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Should be possible to get the notes. But not sure if we would be able to control the timing for pauses between notes without being able to upload direct G-Code
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Plus that laser cutter had a z axis that created the bass line. You can see the camera get lower and lower as the song plays.
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It would be better if it was actually cutting/engravingā¦ but pretty cool.
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I was thinking if they turned the laser on while it was doing that, slowly moving in the Y axis, it would have drawn something squigly and interesting.
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It would likely not look so amazing. Mostly straight lines going back and forth across one another. Hopefully some angles, couldnāt tell if they used the Y axis (donāt have a good ear for music, so no clue how many notes played at once, other than more than 1 sometimes).
And of course it is likely that if running the laser they would run the air assist and extraction, which would make it hard to hear the motors.
(but yesā¦ it would be awesome to make a cut that not only sounds cool, but also looks cool)
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I would happily sacrifice a pice of mdf just to do it
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Reminds me of the Honda Civic Music Road in Lancaster, CA
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Thatās some serious nerd cred.
Hahah!!! These are amazing.
How annoying would that be after the first ten seconds of play!
The process is really rather simple. Just need to convert a song to the appropriate number of notes to match your hardware. Then a bit of MIDI conversion later ā¦
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Since you have practical experience, I think we all expect you to share with us how to do this with our Glowforges when they get here. I suppose that if we have no means of doing this sort of āout-of-the-box,ā you should probably take advantage of the GPLād firmware and create something custom. Warranty be damned.
Not planned for the shipping version, but I know our own @matt loaded some chiptunes into an early Glowforge prototypeā¦
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Does @matt want to make some friends?!
That would certainly be a fun little Easter egg.
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That would beā¦ AWESOME!
Imagine, your Glowforge arrives with a pre-loaded āSample Cutā on the web interface (for any first time log-in/registration). This is a nice simple Glowforge Logo coaster or something.
Butā¦ there is a chiptune āDuh duh da duh da da! Charge!ā right before everything fires upā¦
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I just dusted off an old makerbot cupcake I had sitting around and got it working again this morning. I was printing off a part and low and behold it started playing a pretty cool tune. I immediately thought of this thread!
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that wouldnāt play in my browser, but it let me download and play on my desktopā¦
I really dig the seven-note bass-line as the head works itās way around the āpointā of the heart from screen-right to screen-left. Might have to sample it if I ever get back around to playing with audio.
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