3D Printing

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:32:19 +0000

I don’t think of myself as a 3D Print Designer - I’m just a guy who owns a good 3D printer and likes to use it to solve problems. Every month I find a problem or two for which 3DP is the right tool in my kit, so I’m not going to create a new project here on CH for each and every one. That would be insane. Instead, I’m creating this catch-all project and I’ll report them all here.

Doctor Octave

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:02:05 +0000

Possible Title: Dr Octave’s Musical Monstrosity Lab

Based on my doctoral research, DrOctave is a game in which musical constructs are grown from seed and cross pollinated to produce complex original music.

Basically, players compose original music without any knowledge of music theory, by taking little bits they like and growing them into bigger bits they like, guided by nothing more than their own aesthetic sense of what sounds good. The secret sauce is in how I prepackage music theory and structure into “seeds,” “cuttings” and “sprouts”: elements that are natural to the metaphor.

Project on Creativity Hacker

3D Printing

Doctor Octave