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Fully Printed Parametric Music Box With Exchangeable Song-Cylinders

This is my entry for the Makerbot/Thingiverse/Customizer Challenge :)

 

It's a: Fully Printed Parametric Music Box With Exchangeable Song-Cylinders :))

 

This specific one's has 13 vibrating teeth that are calculated to each half tone covering one octave :) While they might not be perfectly tuned the relative frequencies seem to match :)

 

I used the formulas from this Wikipedia article (sorry it's in German):

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durchschlagende_Zunge#Berechnung_de...

Basically this gives me a function to calculate the length of the tooth given the frequency I want, the height of the tooth (like the thickness of the wire in a piano), and the density and the elastic modulus of the material I use: PLA :)

 

more at the objects page at thingiverse: www.thingiverse.com/thing:53235

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Uploaded on March 8, 2013
Taken on March 8, 2013