Monday, 1 October 2012

Synth manufacturer lets customers 3D print their own parts

Teenage Engineering's OP-1

Want a new part for your synthesiser? Need a replacement knob or dial? In a first, one company is telling its customers to just print their own.


It's a move that signifies a major step into a new commercial marketplace, where customers can buy products directly from companies for on-demand, at-home manufacturing. And while we probably won't see complicated, mechanical products from big corporations reaching us through Thingiverse for a while yet, knobs and dials are the perfect static, detachable objects to begin the movement.


By: Geeta Dayal, Edited by: David Cornish


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/01/3d-print-synth-parts

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