Sounds of Printing - 3D printed vinyl

Found a Tøp fan in the wild lol

hello there my Fren

hello fren

Thank you for printing and playing the vinyl - and thank you for sharing the video too!

Thank you for giving this a go and discovering this little bit of 3D printing magic for yourself. In terms of making versions of this that don't sound like a printer printing... I don't have any ambitions of doing this myself, but have been made aware of others who do! My fear is that for a FDM 3D printer, you'd have to some how either make the background noise of the printing process quieter (what you hear by playing this) or make the audio trying to be played much louder, which boarders on damaging the record player's needle. Perhaps a larger enough resin (SLA/DLP) 3D printer with a much smaller layer height could improve the signal to noise to an acceptable level and would be able to get the sound fidelity such that music isn't limited to 8-bit! Thank you again for giving this a print, and for the review

i have a project for FDM printed records that actually contain songs (bits of it at least). and with a video here: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1925972 [i wrote it in Chinese originally, sorry for inconvienience.

Thank you for printing this and the great review - I love the colour and the addition of the text really make it something special! Happy birthday to the recipient

Hello, did you print it at the original size or did you scale it up? If you increased the size, what is the current diameter in centimeters, and did you encounter any problems during printing?

This is the scale I used, print fine I have some difficulties with the text but printing was okay. I print using the 0.4 Nozzle

Thank you for the comment, I'd never heard of the Gakken record maker before so can't comment on the feasibility of 3D printed blanks with this "toy". That said, I would think that the original blanks would need to be somewhat soft to make the cutting/impression needle feasible for such a small scale, but also strong enough to survive a standard record player. To that thinking, PLA could be a good option, particularly if you pre-heated the blank either on a hot bed, or with a gas match to soften it before embossing with the sound as it would harden up when it cooled. I do like this idea alot. Thanks for sharing

Thank you for sharing, I'm glad you and your daughter enjoy them!

Thanks for giving it a print; it looks like you've got a blob on the outer right of the track (in your second photo) - maybe start the stylist just in from that to prevent it from jumping out

thank you for the suggestion, what would you like to see customisable?

the record. by customisable I meant choices between different songs? also it would be really nice to have a smaller record for the A1 Mini, as this record is not available for me to print because there is no A1 mini option. Thanks!

thanks for the suggestion, I will see if I can scale it down for the A1 mini, but don't have the ability to put songs on it. I believe others have been able to encode songs into printable files, but need finer printers to achieve it

What was the lie?

Whilst PLA is soft (relatively speaking), I wouldn't recommend playing this print with a high end stylist

Thank You