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Gymnopedies · Post by **Gymnopedies** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 12:08 am

O.K, This gets my award for best Aprils Fool "New" Product.
It's searingly funny because it's probably not too far off in the future.

http://www.sweetwater.com/insync/sweetw ... uitarists/
Gotta Love SweetWater.

chroma · Post by **chroma** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:11 am

picks are popular this year:

http://line6.com/pickbot/

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:05 am

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:08 am

chroma wrote:picks are popular this year:

http://line6.com/pickbot/

This gets points for being believable.

Gymnopedies wrote:O.K, This gets my award for best Aprils Fool "New" Product.
It's searingly funny because it's probably not too far off in the future.
http://www.sweetwater.com/insync/sweetw ... uitarists/
Gotta Love SweetWater.

But this gets points for ludicrosity! (yeah, I made up a word, it's ok, I can do that)

AstralExistence · Post by **AstralExistence** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:31 am

ghettosynth wrote:
This gets points for being believable.

i need to learn more.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:54 am

AstralExistence wrote:
ghettosynth wrote:
This gets points for being believable.
i need to learn more.

Not sure what you mean dude? By believable I mean that it's a reasonable process for creating one-off picks that are exactly like some other pick. It's fairly easy to imagine that you might be able to buy different materials for blanks or even create your own, and, the technology to capture "famous picks" is little more than a description of their material and dimensions.

By contrast, the sweetwater product is funny and is mocking the idea of "modeling", but lacks believability because it's just not realistic that one could so radically change the properties of a physical material via software, at least not today.

The Line6 joke could be prescient, in fact, because when the 3d printer industry matures, you might actually see a product just like this. It wouldn't surprise me if it came from Line-6 either. It strikes me that the joke was created by people who are used to the kind of thought exercises that one does when you're trying to innovate.

nineofkings · Post by **nineofkings** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:31 am

And the marketing-speak is over-the-top versions of the actual techniques they and similar companies use. It's well-done for a farce.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:11 pm

I'm sure someone will actually make this...

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:14 pm

Looks like it's Apple only.....

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:29 pm

ghettosynth wrote:Not sure what you mean dude? By believable I mean that it's a reasonable process for creating one-off picks that are exactly like some other pick.

Unfortunately, very few materials used in 3d fabrication match those used for picks, so its not, really. The style of printer they show (its a photoshopped Makerbot2, I believe) generally prints in PLA or ABS, which are not particularly suitable for a pick; PLA is a bit soft, ABS a bit brittle (at the thicknesses needed). And material/thickness are probably vastly more important to a pick than shape.
Even the more upscale 'professional' extrusion-based 3D printers work with similar materials, and the point-fusion 3D printers will be a different category again; resins and some metals etc.

nineofkings · Post by **nineofkings** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:52 pm

Ah yes. That impacts the joke. It's no longer funny. We can go home.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:57 pm

whyterabbyt wrote:
ghettosynth wrote:Not sure what you mean dude? By believable I mean that it's a reasonable process for creating one-off picks that are exactly like some other pick.
Unfortunately, very few materials used in 3d fabrication match those used for picks, so its not, really. The style of printer they show (its a photoshopped Makerbot2, I believe) generally prints in PLA or ABS, which are not particularly suitable for a pick; PLA is a bit soft, ABS a bit brittle (at the thicknesses needed). And material/thickness are probably vastly more important to a pick than shape.
Even the more upscale 'professional' extrusion-based 3D printers work with similar materials, and the point-fusion 3D printers will be a different category again; resins and some metals etc.

Dude, it's about the concept, not about a product, it's a joke. I'm just saying that it's a better joke than the modeled pick because it has MORE believability than a modeled piece of plastic. It's the difference between Arthor C. Clark and Tolkien. Picks are some kind of plastic, 3d printers work with plastic, picks are defined by physical properties. I could describe this product at an average band meeting and the average person would believe it, describe the modeled pick and they know that it's a joke.

All of my picks are nylon, FYI.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/22/3d-p ... extrusion/

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 3:09 pm

ghettosynth wrote:Dude, it's about the concept, not about a product, it's a joke.

um, duh.

I'm just saying that it's a better joke than the modeled pick because it has MORE believability than a modeled piece of plastic. It's the difference between Arthor C. Clark and Tolkien. Picks are some kind of plastic, 3d printers work with plastic, picks are defined by physical properties. I could describe this product at an average band meeting and the average person would believe it, describe the modeled pick and they know that it's a joke.

Yeah, and I described why its currently only a joke. You know, given that you described it as 'reasonable' without adequately describing where it became unreasonable. At the moment, I deal with people with a manifest misunderstanding of what 3D fabrication is capable of on a weekly basis, forgive the f**k out of me for taking that 'reasonable' and clarifying it a bit, Im sure you'd never do anything like that.

All of my picks are nylon, FYI.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/22/3d-p ... extrusion/

Talk to me in ten years.

yes, because the fact that I know some about the current state of 3D printing clearly means Im inured to the prospect of further materials being usable eventually. That makes sense.

AstralExistence · Post by **AstralExistence** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 3:33 pm

ghettosynth wrote:
AstralExistence wrote:
ghettosynth wrote:
This gets points for being believable.
i need to learn more.
Not sure what you mean dude?

didn't you read the full article? on the page it gives a link, (i need to learn more) then when you click on the link, it says, "this was just a joke. but you knew that."

:edit: ah ok, the i need to learn more link is gone now.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 3:39 pm

AstralExistence wrote:
ghettosynth wrote:
AstralExistence wrote:
ghettosynth wrote:
This gets points for being believable.
i need to learn more.
Not sure what you mean dude?
didn't you read the full article? on the page it gives a link, (i need to learn more) then when you click on the link, it says, "this was just a joke. but you knew that."

:edit: ah ok, the i need to learn more link is gone now.

There was no link when you posted.

Best April 1 Faux Product