The present of the future
December 19, 2017This is quite possibly the coolest gift I’ve ever received.
What you’re seeing and hearing in that video is a Fisher-Price Music Box-Record Player from the 1970s … playing a custom 3D-printed toy record of a song I wrote about the birth of my younger son.
My wife used a free software program to create a music-box-style arrangement of the song and create a SCAD file. Then she used a different free program, OpenSCAD, to create an STL file that could be 3D-printed.
And how did she know how to do all this? She followed the directions in a hobbyist’s blog post, of course.
Amazing!
My Track Record 
That is soooo awesome! I had one of those Fisher Price players as a kid. What a great gift!
My daughter was born in April of 1970 and she got one of these for Christmas a few years later. What you guys did was awesome for that time. Nice words and tune!