That is awesome, the flute looks like the gun from the toon-world in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
They gave themselves quite a challenge trying to 3d-print a playable instrument: as you can see from the video, on the modern flute most keys depress one or more other keys when pressed, so the mechanism has to be adjusted just so in order for all of the pads involved in a key press to seal at the same time (in fact thin pieces of paper are used to shim pads to get a good seal, so it's quite a precise thing).
I really, really hope they fabricate some new and amazing Dr. Seuss instruments and commision some student composers to write pieces for them.
They gave themselves quite a challenge trying to 3d-print a playable instrument: as you can see from the video, on the modern flute most keys depress one or more other keys when pressed, so the mechanism has to be adjusted just so in order for all of the pads involved in a key press to seal at the same time (in fact thin pieces of paper are used to shim pads to get a good seal, so it's quite a precise thing).
I really, really hope they fabricate some new and amazing Dr. Seuss instruments and commision some student composers to write pieces for them.