Mark and the Shopbotted Violin

Mark Williams designed and built his own electric violin at the Boston Fab Lab. Mark has been a participant in the Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn program at the South End Technology Center, where he served this summer as a college mentor while working on this project.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• learn2teach
• l2t
• l2tt2l
• shopbot
• markwilliams
• cnc
• violin
• electric violin

[prealpha]

Criticizing is easy. Making things is hard.

[skudmunky]

This video was made with a cheap piezo pickup on the violin, going into a cheap 8" speaker amplifier, with a huge amount of background noise and a digital camera mic picking up the audio. Once I get some real pickups on it, and play it through my acoustic amp, and record it with a nice condensor, it will sound much, much better.

[Navigator7777777]

cutting edge.

And the guy can play!

[xenniex2]

you can work 5 years decorating a piece of shit, in the end, it still remains a piece of shit

[shopbottools]

Great project, Mark! Thanks for sharing this, Chris. Mark's project truly demonstrates the ShopBotter and the Maker philosophy.

[xenniex2]

sounds like shit. The original violin is a respected instrument with beautifull sound. Don't fuck it up by making it electrical too... idiot

[jenkinsm]

Absolutely incredible! I hope Mark puts up more videos of himself playing that monster! Great work!