There’s something that always fascinates me about music boxes. The pin-and-comb mechanism that produces chiming notes is just too cute and calming to hear. They’re not new — the first music boxes started arriving towards the latter half of the 18th century — but a company called Left Field Labs has offered a modern — and personal — twist.
A new project called Music Drops asks you to compose your own 16-note tune using a grid. Clicking the squares indicates which notes are to be played (as far as we can ascertain, the scale starts at A at the top of the grid, and descends nearly two octaves), and you can create chords.
Then the company converts the music to a 3D-printable file using WebGL, and you can order a 3D-printed,
Source: Cnet.com.au