Bad Apple!! but it's on a 3d Printer (music and video)

To play the video, I converted each frame of bad apple to an svg, and then each frame of that into an stl. I used prusaslicer with some custom slicer settings to batch process each stl, and then to actually print the files I wrote a small python script to combine the files into large gcode files with 20 frames on each of them. I took the pictures using a Nikon d5100, and it's just a slideshow after that. You will notice the printbed getting more deteriorated as the video continues from the repeated first layers being printed on it.
To play the music, I have a python script for converting midi to gcode. I wrote more about this in my previous bad apple on 3d printer video. An interesting side effect of the music being printed is that it's actually slower than the original at some parts, meaning I have to resync the entire video to go with it. I had to do this with my idol on 3d printer video as well. That's the main reason why it took so long to make.
at 5 fps there's about 1000 frames, so I sat there and removed each frame after it printed. took around 18 hours of sitting in front of the printer and clicking a button

[@zedena1413]

do NOT scan the QR code on the printer!!!

[@JackLuckSack]

this is a lie

[@frantaspacek]

dammit

[@F1ory]

You convinced me to do this. DO NOT DO THIS UNDER ANY CASE

[@alexandrubossro]

This is the worst thing I did in my life, DO NOT SCAN IT!!!!

[@osmosis_ghost3722]

I tried scanning.... it wouldn't let me. Guess I'll never know.

[@GameJam230]

The first two questions any human must ask when they see something that exists are "Can it run Doom?" and "Can it play Bad Apple?". Nothing else matters.

[@hiram64]

Hardware version: Doom Video version: Bad Apple Audio version: Megalovania

[@celinavarchausky5333]

"Can I open ao3 on it?"

[@nubbyboi6523]

Scientific calculator: - Can run DOOM - Can play Bad Apple - Is therefore optimal hardware

[@brickpuncher1429]

May I present the ideas of Bad Apple in Doom and Doom in Bad Apple?

[@AndreaFrancoise]

Then there's also the alternative "But can it run Crysis?"

[@Diego3Ke]

After seeing the thumbnail, I am so glad these were all first layer prints. Dude probably would have started this project when the meme first started if he had to wait for every frame to become a foot-tall statuette

[@JackLuckSack]

Would be pretty funny to have over 1000 bad apple 2d planes sitting around the house though lol

[@webbugt]

@@JackLuckSack Could be a giveaway opportunity, or a for-charity auction

[@kiwi9065]

​@@webbugt but who would need these-

[@ekaltriesodraw]

​@@kiwi9065 me

[@elan425]

@@kiwi9065who wouldn’t

[@Eeveelution_Queen]

"Hey bro, what instrument do you play?" "3D Printer." "What?"

[@ZuoKalp]

Did I stutter?

[@nerdtopiaball5255]

The printer sounds like it’s in agony but despite it, it wishes to continue to sing. Wonderful work, and let’s see on what else we can port this song and video

[@artsyscrub3226]

on brand with the song as its about someone contemplating suicide

[@mischiefthedegenerateratto7464]

Sounds like the song kokoro

[@mischiefthedegenerateratto7464]

​@@artsyscrub3226moreso depression, also the nes game came first

[@al3xth33x3cut0r]

NAW DA PRINTER IS ON FIREE 🔥 🔥 🔥 🗣🗣🗣

[@AspynDotZip]

The disappearance of hatsune miku vibes haha

[@ReDsHorde]

Watching that bed surface deteriorate was a bit painful but amazing work nonetheless

[@votlesword9150]

fr , comparing first 10 sec to last 10 sec is painfull

[@roowut]

yeah, probably time to get a plastic scraper instead

[@Narinjas]

​@@roowut Or softer, bronze scraper with steel backbone.

[@JackLuckSack]

I used my fingernails It's not actually from the tool, but it's actually the plastic peeling the coating as it prints layer by layer. Remember- there are about 1000 frames in this video. That's several hundred more than the printbed is designed for.

[@huhnocorn7397]

@@JackLuckSackYOU USED YOUR FINGERNAILS.!?!?! God damn that must have HURT good lord

[@kerbodynamicx472]

This is the first time I see someone making Bad Apple by recreating not only the video, but also the audio as well!

[@crisveinte6511]

Real

[@limesandlemons1367]

There's a tesla coil/laser show one that does that! Both are super impressive

[@TishSerg]

@@limesandlemons1367Also, Bad apple on MK-90 (chiptune sound)

[@crazybird199]

That is some insane first layer calibration.

[@chyrt]

Properly configured bed mesh leveling, I really recommend adding it to your printer if it doesn't have it!

[@coreytaylor5386]

ngl, I am widely jealous

[@JackLuckSack]

@@chyrt who needs mesh leveling when you're simply built different (i'm not built different, the printer is stock and doesn't have mesh leveling)

[@chinnudanturi9730]

@@JackLuckSack the bed leveling defeated me and now my printer hasn't woke up in a few months and is just collecting dust as a hobby

[@einsteinx2]

@@chinnudanturi9730what printer do you have?

[@Vivigreeny25]

I think the best part is the combination of the visuals AND the fact that you PRINTED THE MUSIC.

[@FemboyLucky]

Something about 3D printer motors making sounds like these are fascinating to my ears

[@lemonadegaming8865]

If you want more look up stepper motor music

[@woodybob01]

You combine each frame into the same structure and get a cool-looking tower that changes with each frame

[@CJBoxyeet]

Search up bad apple but a slice of volume

[@apolloisnotashirt]

@@CJBoxyeettskr

[@raffaeldavila1305]

@@CJBoxyeetof course this exists already lmao

[@cat_clan_leader]

A Bad Apple video in my recommendations that isn't 12 years old. The community is still thriving

[@Bxu021]

I thought you were about to print a 3-D version of it, and I was about to cry over how much filament that would be 😂

[@Resomius]

playing bad apple on anything immaginable may be one of the best parts of internet culture ever

[@IxcoyDennis]

i love seeing things like this in my recommended, even after all these years bad apple finds its way to me, amazing job. Especially with what im assuming is the motors as the music, so cool

[@Hachiro]

Stepper motor music is pretty common x3 I think there's a few channels dedicated to that. Just search up some popular song, and add stepper motor to the search.

[@OliverStarfall]

If there’s one thing that makes me happy it’s the knowledge that if a machine makes a noise then we will play a song on it We did this with the mars rover, which played “happy birthday” by scanning different parts of its environment I believe?

[@Claym1x]

It's so cool to see the build plate get messier and messier as it goes on

[@brucehaslitt35]

wow just wow. the onlything that could make this better is the frames being fully printed each time instead of outlined but that could up the cost substantially. Edit: 5 Months Later... wow this is the most likes I have ever had on a comment. look at me mom I am famous I would like to thank Bad Apple.

[@JackLuckSack]

It wasn't really a cost problem, but more of a time problem. With just the outline, each frame took 1-2 minutes to print, and with 1000 frames that's a minimum of 15 hours of me sitting there and scraping off each frame. If it filled it in, then it would instead take 3-6 minutes each frame, increasing the time exponentially. I suppose I could have made them smaller to compensate, but then I'd lose out on the finer details.

[@ipodtouchiscoollol]

@@JackLuckSack Use a IDEX printer and have each frame as a layer? would be interesting how tall the final print would be. could probably play the bassline and melody seprately with that

[@JackLuckSack]

Other people have done that, someone played it on their X1 carbon with black and white filament. The bassline and melody are played separately on the x and y motors, you don't need 2 heads to play them. Having more motors would be nice, but it's not necessary for a song like bad apple. Something I might do in the future is to get a resin printer and play it on that, but then i have to buy a resin printer and my dorm is very small lol

[@kzalesak4]

I prefer it this way. It makes it more varied and the sharp lines make the viewer fill in the frame anyway, which is imo more satisfying

[@bobstevenson3130]

I like it more without it being filled in personally. It reminds me of vector art from the early 80s

[@maristheone3237]

My man can print the cleanest first layers in history and chooses to do this... Based

[@Wildspeck]

I feel like a lot of the versions of bad apple I see either change the audio or visuals and I am glad to see you recreated both

[@microwave856]

especially when its on some obscure thing that doesn't seem like it could do it like a graphing calculator or something

[@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440]

Woah pretty impressive! I bet you used variable voltages for the motor to make the music! As since it’s a stepper motor every movement makes sounds

[@JackLuckSack]

The voltages are actually constant, but what changes is the rate of steps sent to the motor. Stepper motors work by moving 1 step at a time, so if you send steps at the same frequency as a note, then it will play that note. I don't need any custom firmware, all I need to know is how many steps the printer moves per millimeter, then using duration and pitch of the note I can tell the printer where to go and how quickly to go there. Lots of people have done this before, so I used a slightly modified version of someone else's code.

[@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440]

Ahh I see @@JackLuckSack

[@msg5559]

Damn, you have more dedication than me. I almost did the same thing, but I just couldn't stomach the thought of sitting in front of my printer for that long. Props to you!

[@sage5296]

there's a video that's I think bad apple but it's a moving crosssection of a 3d volume, and if you printed each layer without clearing the prior ones that's what you'd end up with, which would be pretty dope lol

[@JackLuckSack]

someone did that! you can search for bad apple played but its a 500 hour 3d print. their printer is much more expensive than mine

[@Fail-harold]

Completely worth the 1 year wait!

[@kriana725]

This is not what i was expecting, However i am left more in love with what ive discovered than what was anticipated I freaking LOVE this!!!!

[@cloud_congestus]

ok but how can a 3d printer play music better than me

[@xislomega242]

Sounds like some very old 8-bit remix

[@batlover2003]

Honestly my favorite version of the song I’ve ever heard

[@lunaponta594]

oh WOW this is a lot first off, the 3d printer sounds are amazing. they're really really cool and i'd love to recreate it somehow even though i don't have a 3d printer lol. it sounds like it's struggling, and gives sounds so robotically alive, it's gorgeous. secondly, at 1:50 and 3:30 the harmony is different than the original! the bass note is on the third so the chord is no longer the same, and it turned out pretty cool. i don't know how you turned the music into something the 3d printer understands, but either if you did the notes by hand or it was converted from the audio file, it's maybe because the lowest notes couldn't be played? or it picked up a harmonic of the bass or something? either way, it sounds cool reharmonized. and the second time even happens on the key change, so it blew me away even more also, that's a lot of dedication for a youtube video lol. huge props

[@JackLuckSack]

Yeah, the gcode file is generated using a midi to gcode converter. I usually go into the midi and clear out the lower notes because they dont sound so good on the printer (and I can only play 2 notes at a time), so that's probably what you noticed.

[@lunaponta594]

@@JackLuckSack yeahh that's what happened then. for it to have the same harmonic context of the original, it should have been a Bb C and D on the bass (like the rest of the song, but held down), but this way turned out cooler in my opinion lol

[@atemoc]

This is going to blow up, and I'l all here for it. Basically two dozen hours of work (or a bit more), well worth it! Well done.

[@SupersuMC]

Two dozen hours? Last I checked that was a solar day.

[@atemoc]

@@SupersuMC No way! I assumed y'all lived on Mars, but I guess you're on Earth My bad!

[@TASTEGROUND]

printing music

[@aliendxde]

the way the square was scraped off so many times it started to become permanent

[@cindyespindola4946]

This "trend" is still alive!! such a creative addition!!

[@EngiNetion]

it'll most likely never die

[@JaydenJames-nl5qo]

"Playing bad apple on my time machine" ​@@EngiNetion

[@PeTr01]

def one of my fav renditions, and the big ball of filament at the end too, mad respect!

[@vladde]

so cool to see the video and hear the music - all from the printer!

[@pixtane7427]

Sounds incredibly and somewhat nostalgic

[@iamD2]

The amount of time putting in this video is amazing. Well done.

[@coucoul38]

Even the song damn 😮

[@Nickel2Sulfate]

the ball of filament after was so good.

[@SuperPcPenguin]

I love it how you can see the print board slowly getting slightly more scratched and minorly damaged over the video

[@smal5504]

genuinely, a 3d pronter may be one of, if not my favorite music instrument/hj it sounds so cool and i loved listening to it so much

[@faroedinnayru3154]

That is so cool ❤❤❤ it’s crazy how the bass notes come out so well from a printer motor 😂 great video ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@purplemayhem]

I have no idea who started this trend, but I am very heppy that it's still going after all these years. Bad apple is such a good song

[@Clinterpottrmus]

impressive patience, hats off to you

[@plutototoh]

This is SUCH a cool idea and what an amazing project to pull off!!!! WOAH!!!!

[@Emperor-Quill]

This is the kind of Machine-Made Art I can get behind.

[@aidankeys8534]

While everything about this is amazing, the mechanical key change was so good!

[@CrescentX3]

Can’t wait to see this done on the bambu lab a1, since they advertise using the steppers to play music

[@Bee-ei5my]

I didn’t know other people still cared about this song or game. This made my day ❤😊

[@doodleplayer4014]

The printing was probably pretty quick for each frame (depends on the printer, those things are *fast* these days) I wonder what it was like printing all those individual frames

[@maksjusz]

the way that the music is made from motor noises is unbelievable

[@Walt_Raleigh]

Simply hypnotic to hear a printer do the bad apple

[@BlackFenix-jz5rs]

Imagine going to a party and this banger starts playing

[@dahliaserrato1706]

Keeping the bad apple tradition, love it. ✌🏼

[@markshelor3991]

Nobody do this on a resin printer please.

[@enhidri160]

Challenge accepted lol.

[@Heliomation]

That sounds fun 〜⁠(⁠꒪⁠꒳⁠꒪⁠)⁠〜

[@rookiecookie153]

"What's this pile of plastic?" "PILE OF PLASTIC?? THIS IS EVERY FRAME OF BAD APPLE."

[@KachChakTheNunchuk]

I LOVE THIS! the cute 3d printer sounds. The animation.. ITS ALL AMAZING❤

[@Crane-.-]

すごすぎる!曲の再現もしてるけどめっちゃかっこいい

[@lepyti]

Wow! This is amazing! Its even in 4k :)

[@fitzfizzy]

Kinda fun to see the wear and scratches build up over the give amount of time this project must have taken

[@ThatOneSaltyFilipino]

All of these leftover printed marks plus the noise makes me feel like I'm watching an old timey film.

[@robertheinrich2994]

nice video. I wonder if it could be done in vase mode. essentially building frame by frame upwards. sure, every cut needs to be a new print, and appearing parts can't be done because of no support. but it could be fun 🙂

[@ArDeeMee]

There is a video about „Bad Apple but it’s a slice of a volume“. It looks amazing.

[@robertheinrich2994]

@@ArDeeMee thanks, I'm just watching it 🙂

[@sokifin01]

You are one of those people i have no clue how you have the determination and time to do things like this. But I can't lie this is awesome

[@shykj8892]

Basically Bad Apple but on a paper printer with a pinch of volumn lol. Great work

[@Vernrot]

This is absolutely incredible, wow

[@thatguyoversea]

Debatably more impressive than the animation is the song cover. Whaaaat the fuck!! It's so good

[@ghowost_toast_js]

This is one of my favorite applications of this meme I have seen, the fact that the music was also generated with the printer just adds so much

[@bolng8958]

This is so cool you’re a real artist

[@BrandoOrSomething]

Bad Apple as a printer sound is unexplainably goofy.

[@SNN95]

Thank you, YT recommendation!!!!

[@jimbotron8552]

damn a lot of effort went into this smack the like button

[@aznguy.mp4]

i wish my bed adhesion was this good

[@iankim1869]

imagine 3d printing in the middle of the night and hearing this

[@pax5655]

im glad you used minimal amount of filament, i know people say it would look better but it's good for the environment to not print things youre going to throw away

[@roowut]

I'd be interested to learn more about how you created the music gcode, I had tried it a while back but couldn't get any good results

[@JackLuckSack]

I used one of the forks of this library. I can't remember which one it was, sorry. github.com/michthom/MIDI-to-CNC

[@renniecakes]

so glad to see people are still maming bad apple...stuff. I hope it'll continue for as long as technology advances

[@timvangenechten5258]

Nice to see a bad apple video that is more than just camera trickery. Nice work.

[@Temmie_Dola]

I think you missed the opportunity to stitch all the footage together in sequence and auction this intrusion as the physical embodiment of the video

[@Charles-In-Charge]

LOSING MY MIND HOW DO YOU TUNE A PRINTER

[@JackLuckSack]

you can tuna printer but you can't tuna fish

[@AlKenlly]

*¡Muchas gracias por esta versión tan sorprendente y compleja de Bad Apple!*

[@LocalChaos-8217]

The poor printer bro 😭😭🙏 Phenomenal job btw!!

[@squa_81]

Did you make a midi interface for the printer? I'd be interested in hooking mine to my midi keyboard and see what happens

[@JackLuckSack]

Unfortunately it's not a direct midi interface but rather a converter that takes the midi file data and converts it to gcode for the 3d printer. It would theoretically be possible to do it in real time though, maybe a future project?

[@squa_81]

@@JackLuckSack it sure would make for a cool product with the overlap of musician and people with 3d printers

[@DanteEhome]

Mind I ask What lib did you you use for the auto border tracing?

[@JackLuckSack]

I used potrace, because the black and white limitation didn't affect me. I basically saw the junferno video about playing anything in desmos and thought "hmm. Surely there's something to convert svgs into stls, right" and now here we are

[@DanteEhome]

@@JackLuckSack I see. I always use inkscape for border tracing, maybe I should try the potrace also.

[@AmberFurea]

at the beginning it sounded like the printer was crying for help-

[@mirandamanga9083]

I cant stop myself from seeing these videos. Its just a matter of not when but how.

[@KennethicSand]

Damn this is actually banger

[@NotSoLegendaryGreen]

this is the most physically painful rendition I've seen of this meme to date, cheers

[@Blue1120]

“If it exists,There’s a Bad Apple version of it”

[@cleantrashcan2628]

This Is actually the first time I've watched these to the end. That was cool.

[@Bingocat4]

This should have more views! I’m surprised I was recommended another one of your videos and found this digging through your channel

[@JackLuckSack]

Wait, which video were you recommended? This bad apple one is my most popular by far so I'm wondering what KZbin decided you would rather watch instead of this one

[@Bingocat4]

@@JackLuckSack can’t remember exactly either kass theme or bad piggies which I guess makes sense cause I like both of those

[@suroguner]

Bad Apple and Doom get ported to everything they can be.

[@RipleySawzen]

The Floppotron guy: "I'll take three of these, please"

[@AcorntheTrickster_]

All jokes aside, this is actually really impressive!

[@vajavajush]

your deidcation is incredible

[@travisnguyen6053]

What surprise me is that you made a 3D printer become a speaker

[@mochisodapop]

this is the type of content im looking for fr

[@MembraneSlave]

YAY THE THEME ON THE PRINTER **clap of approval**

[@xanderlastname3281]

I want another version of this where all the layers are printed on top of one another and it turns into an absolute garbled mess

[@Bukkie661]

It helps that Bad Apple is a timeless banger.

[@TutoProPlay1]

I’m really curious what the future civilizations will make up trying to figure out what these kind of videos were made for and would love to see from the afterlife how they scratch their heads lol

[@valzzu]

this is just on a another level