Meet the Man Building the World’s Weirdest 3D-Printed Instruments
Gizmodo’s Human Generated is a series of profiles and interviews with some of the most inventive people working across tech, science, entertainment, and art. We go beyond the finished product to explore the process and person behind it. For most of his life, Nicolas Bras has had music stuck in his head.
- ▪Gizmodo’s Human Generated is a series of profiles and interviews with some of the most inventive people working across tech, science, entertainment, and art.
- ▪We go beyond the finished product to explore the process and person behind it.
- ▪For most of his life, Nicolas Bras has had music stuck in his head.
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| Canonical URL | https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-man-building-the-worlds-weirdest-3d-printed-instruments-2000815086 |
| Publication time | Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:31:10 +0000 |
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Gizmodo’s Human Generated is a series of profiles and interviews with some of the most inventive people working across tech, science, entertainment, and art. We go beyond the finished product to explore the process and person behind it. For most of his life, Nicolas Bras has had music stuck in his head. While some earworms are derived from TV jingles and top-40 hits, the instruments in Bras’ mind couldn’t be replicated—because they didn’t exist. Over the last decade and a half, Bras has created unorthodox instruments from scrap metal, pallet wood, pipes, and 3D-printed parts to bring the music in his head to life. A self-taught multi–instrumentalist, Bras was only 17 when he put together a crude PVC pipe didgeridoo with a candlewax mouthpiece.
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