The Gakken toy record cutter was only 8000 yen when it was released[0].
replyMy spouse bought one on a whim. The quality is ... quite bad. It's a tool for learning about how this works though! So it was a fun little activity. But it really is "just" what it is.
Maybe Teenage Engineering's toy that looks like is exactly the same tech is better. I have my doubts.
The two groove cutters(?) on the APC-2 look like the weigh more than that toy cutter. It is interesting that this prints in realtime is that a toy thing?
replyYeah that copy doesn’t line up with the reality of the pricing or production run of this thing at all.
replyCool project but the opposite of democratization.
Shipping is making things prohibitively expensive in many parts of the world
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