Reminds me of the Honda Civic Music Road in Lancaster, CA
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That’s 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 …
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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 “out-of-the-box,” you should probably take advantage of the GPL’d 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 prototype…
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That would be… AWESOME!
Imagine, your Glowforge arrives with a pre-loaded “Sample Cut” on the web interface (for any first time log-in/registration). This is a nice simple Glowforge Logo coaster or something.
But… there is a chiptune “Duh duh da duh da da! Charge!” right before everything fires up…
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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 wouldn’t play in my browser, but it let me download and play on my desktop…
I really dig the seven-note bass-line as the head works it’s way around the ‘point’ 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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I have some old audio files I sampled a few years ago from this very machine. used them in some songs with my old band.
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I don’t think I’d make it past 10 seconds anyway. I’d already be in our basement, trying to find our old NES.
Am I the only one that had some serious flashbacks with that Super Mario song?
@Dan I’m putting in my request for the Zelda theme song. 
I guess I’ll just leave this here:
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That looks like a super complicated instrument Oo
If that isn’t already an old arcade tune, you need to make it one!
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Chris DiPrisco has a pretty good channel for building a vertical mill. Lots of machining. Here is a fiber laser singing.
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One of the main things about Fiber lasers that makes me jealous is that you can do this. Since the singing is made by the ablation, you can make a nice image with a song. Not the most efficient cut speed for the given job, but that isn’t the point.
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