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From Economy of Commodities to Economy of Ideas: Hardware as Social Medium.
Design Management Review Volume 22, Issue 3, pages 44–53, September 2011
Ziv Bar Ilan
Zoybar is a like Meccano for music. It’s an open-source guitar kit which you put together yourself, and the modular parts can be arranged in many combinations to make differently shaped instruments. The kit can be bought in either bass or six-string configurations, but the twist is that you can further customize the designs yourself.
Zoybar Tor, designed using open source 3D modeling software. Everyone seemed to agree that it looked great with its sleek, minimal design, but the big question was: how did it sound? Well, we emailed Bård and asked him if he wouldn’t mind sending us a video of him playing it, and he kindly obliged with the video above. Keep in mind he’s playing this fretless, but even so, we think it sounds pretty damn good.
The white parts that make up the body contours of this guitar have been 3D printed to meet [Bård S D's] personal specifications. He started designing the pieces last year to add to his Zoybar guitar. Each of the three parts has its own function.

The guitar works quite well and looks like something Starchild would use to blow up an alien invasion force. The plans, which are open source, are available here ... It requires a few non-fabricated electronics, but otherwise it’s a completely homegrown axe that looks cooler than cool.
He then printed it, attached pickups and strings, and performed on it, to quite pleasant effect, as can be verified by this short video. Bravo!

3Dデータをダウンロード、形状を自分の好みやサイズに合わせて調整したデータを共有。 ３Dプリントすることでホントのギターを手に入れられる、オープンソースなみんなのエレキギター。
Na powyższym nagraniu mogliście zobaczyć pokaz możliwości gitary. Jest całkiem nieźle, prawda? Koszt podstawowego modelu to 670 dolarów. Na tej bazie można zamontować białą nakładkę widoczną na filmie. Gitary to zresztą niejedyne instrumenty muzyczne, których drukowanie ma umożliwić projekt Zoybar.
Now, he didn’t print the entire guitar. The guts of the guitar are based on Zoybar’s open platform, which lets musicians experiment with their own custom musical instruments using a library of standard, reusable components.
Para muchos músicos, la guitarra es una dama única y especial, una compañera personal de la cual se aprende constantemente. Pero si alguien quiere una relación aún más íntima, en vez de comprar una guitarra, debería fabricarla, o mejor dicho en este caso, ensamblarla.

In the future, will you print musical instruments off your computer, instead of buying them at the local music store? It may sound a bit 'flying car', but check out this demonstration video of the Zoybar TOR - an open source 3D printed guitar. In essence, instruments like the Tor can be modeled using open source 3d software. The models can be shared via the Internet.
"It’s been a growing trend this past year and is something we will only be seeing more of as the technology gets cheaper and the processes behind it become simpler. This particular guitar was made through Zoybar—a research and development lab open to anyone who wants to create instruments or applications..."
"The open-source movement's capacity for collaborative innovation on the content and productivity side is a well-established reality, with success stories like Wikipedia, Wordpress and Firefox to show for. But open-source initiatives on the creative side are still a relative rarity. Zoybar is out to change that. "
"Until now duplicating hardware innovation was a fragmented process. You needed to start over every time. The collaborative level was more of a reaction rather than interaction".
"Se siete dei musicisti e volete di più dal vostro strumento a corda (in particolare la chitarra, ma non soltanto) Zoybar può essere il luogo adatto a voi. Si tratta di una comunità cresciuta su attorno all’idea del designer israeliano Ziv Bar Ilan per condividere progetti non commerciali legati alla costruzione fai-da-te di strumenti a corda"

Brooks, 1960s musical icon, said: "This is a lot of things that don't exist ... There's no end to it, you just attach it on and play." Sliding his fingers on the sound-effect controller, eyes bright at the unique sound, he said: "I think it's an incredible idea and I wish I'd thought of it."
Israel ist "Patentweltmeister": Nirgendwo sonst werden gemessen an der Bevölkerung so viele Erfindungen angemeldet. Auch nennt man sich selbst gern "Start up Natio": Land der Existenzgründer.
Zoybar has received the 2009 Atir Awards – Israeli Industrial Design Awards by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Labor.

"Zoybar`s modular design offers a new development process that incorporates attributes from the digital domain - cut & paste, copy & paste and the most important 'undo' - the ability to move back and forth in the assembly without losing materials or information."
" At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, new means of production and design are creating new markets. These emerging markets and resources require new business models and design approaches. What began as a research project of alternative production platforms evolved into a successful open hardware commercial venture. ..."
"This is a guitar for musicians, not necessarily for guitarists. It's meant for people who are interested in creativity as such, not only for those who just do what they are told..."

I.D. — September/October 2009 Vol. 56, Number 6
Sound Ideas
Modular music-making platforms are changing the way we think of the musical instrument — and building communities in the process.
By Daron Murphy

"These days, open-source hardware is the rage among venture capitalists, technologists and hackers: The idea is that you provide a kit of modular parts, which anyone can then adapt to whatever need they like."

"the design is essentially like a lego for musical instruments, the parts can be assembled and reassembled in any configuration allowing the creation of completely new instruments."

"It’s essentially what others might do with pieces of random instruments, but the attachment method for the bits in a Zoybar setup is standard so that they’re swappable, individually upgradeable and so on, without any soldering or drilling to be done."

"The results look like something the evil supergeek in an 80s movie would play. “So, Todd, you think you and your puny Goody and the Goody Two-Shoes can defeat me, Brad, in the Battle of the Bands Saturday? Ha! You haven’t seen my secret weapon, the Kaossitar. My band, The Black Death, will be unbeatable – and the babilicious Mindy is totally mine! Now, where’d I put my Power Glove…”

"Stringed instruments are diverse in sound and design, but they all share the same basic shape. That similarity hadn't really bugged anyone too much for the last few hundred years, but where most see variety Zoybar sees redundancy..."

"These modular parts are able to be assembled together into various instruments, and amazingly enough, can be swapped during the performance to go along with a myriad of special effects simply by adding or changing their position across the profile grooves."

"The Zoybar kits aim to reduce a lot of those complexities -- the components are all open-source, extremely customizable, and modular. They boast seemingly endless options for the guitar (or whatever you choose to build), not to mention the possibilities of the special effects displays. It looks like it's going to be pretty simple to get creative with the kits"

"Zoybar is an open musical instrument development platform, implementing some very innovative ideas that are usually thrown around only in the realm of software development."
"Here's something you've never seen before. Seriously. Zoybar has developed this guitar-looking device that allows players to manipulate sounds from several stringed instruments..."

"Guitar aficionados, get ready to drool. Even if you’re not into guitars or any other musical instrument, this product will definitely interest anyone with a liking for creativity."

"Have you every wanted to make your own guitar but have been put off by your lack of wood working skills? A Zoybar could be the solution..."

"L’imagination n’a pas de frontière et tant mieux ! Et dans le domaine des instruments de musique, ce postulat se confirme par la Zoybar. "

"Zoybar Is To Guitars What Controllerism Is To MIDI Interfaces"

"As modular synthesizers are to the world of synths, the Zoybar is to guitars"

"Qui si è affrontata la cosa dal punto di vista opposto, quello dell’utente finale; il livello di libertà di scelta è massimo, si può realizzare tutta una vasta gamma di alternative, si va dalle più semplici chitarre elettriche, passando per i bassi, fino alle stravaganti chitarre a doppio manico...."

"Zoybar looks like a transformer robot. It can be mounted with different necks, different pickups - and there's plenty of room for third party hardware effects. Instant sound control at your fingertips"

"Les concepteurs de la Zoybar n’ont gardé que l’essentiel structurel de la guitare. Un manche, des cordes et un corps réduit à l’état de simples armatures. Le principe de cet instrument réside dans sa modularité. Vous pouvez assembler les éléments qui le composent comme vous le désirez."

"Die Idee: Auf der Plattform können die Nutzer sich über ihre Konzepte für Saiten-Instrumente austauschen, indem sie sich zu Projektgruppen zusammenschließen oder Fotos und Videos für alle sichtbar online stellen. Da die Musiker sich ihre Instrumente selbst mit Hilfe des Basis-Baukastens zusammenbauen, können sie auch entscheiden, wie diese aussehen. Sie legen fest, wie lang der Korpus ist oder ob statt einem Griffbrett ..."
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