[Jed] from Toronto’s hackerspace HackLab.TO coded the theme from Super Mario Bros. for their laser cutter. He’s posted the ruby code that generates the g-code from a simple tablature.
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What a waste of time. I like it! It would be pretty cool to see a visual representation of this with a router. Each note would be represented by a different depth of cut by the router.
rofl, machine abuse at its simplest, wonderful ^_^
That’s actually really cool that they used one axis for the main track, and the other axis for playing the bass track. Very fancy stuff.
man i wish i had that much free time.
next zelda tune :-)
@nanoc i don’t even care about the time, i wish i had a lazer cutter
Man I never do that with my cnc machine, stuff like that can be hard on stepper controllers/motors.
kool, yesterday i saw vid of floppy drive playing StarWars theme song!!!
no joke!!!
This would be even more impressive if it cut out a musical score while playing.
Ya know, the first 12 zillion times this was done it was kindof impressive. Maybe if they hooked this up to twitter while it was playing “music” that would be special.
If i had an insanely expensive CNC laser cutting machine I could play the Super Mario Theme too. O wait I’ve had a Midi sequencer and speakers in my computer since the 486. And IT sounds better!!!! ;D
No seriously that was cool, In a GEEKY kind of way.
VIPER!
Why are these musical cnc machines all the craze now? I’m all for it, but was there some kinda trigger for it in the past year or something?
Meme proliferation. Someone thought it was cool, did their own version, two people thought that was cool…
Musical F1 engines are much neater.
I’m curious as to why a number of people are giving a fuss on how this isn’t exciting?
How isn’t it? Yeah, it may have been done before in some shape or form, but these guys did it very well; it’s not every day a laser cutter kicks that much ass
This is cool and all, but I’m still waiting for people to take it to the next level, and create musical electric cars
This is impressive. It kinda reminds me of the Honda musical road commercial.
Cool.
Ha Ha… It is good to see people having fun at work!!!
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