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Posted by: Jim on: 12/22/2012 05:59 PM
Though the quality is considerably less than perfect, the process and ability still has a major cool factor. Although, I still own some vinyl that probably sounds worse.
"This project was my first experiment extending this idea beyond electronics. I printed these records on a UV-cured resin printer called the Objet Connex500. This printer has incredibly high resolution: 600dpi in the x and y axes and 16 microns in the z axis, some of the highest resolution possible with 3D printing at the moment. Despite all this precision, the Objet still at least an order of magnitude or two away from the resolution of a real vinyl record.
Read the full How To here: http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Printed-Record/
"This project was my first experiment extending this idea beyond electronics. I printed these records on a UV-cured resin printer called the Objet Connex500. This printer has incredibly high resolution: 600dpi in the x and y axes and 16 microns in the z axis, some of the highest resolution possible with 3D printing at the moment. Despite all this precision, the Objet still at least an order of magnitude or two away from the resolution of a real vinyl record.
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