There have been some recent updates from Donald Lindsay’s 3D Printed Bagpipes project over in the UK, including this video of a printed Qwistle in sintered nylon, and a number of tweets and photos (below) from those helping to work out the process details for desktop printing these elements.

#Qwistle as printed by Bill Owens. Successful print is in yellow PLA. The blue example shows different filament. pic.twitter.com/bKsW5K9amW

— Lindstruments (@lindstruments) July 11, 2014

Pics of the Thingiverse 'Mini G Chanter', as printed by Mike ; pic.twitter.com/yw8HhD9Piw

— Lindstruments (@lindstruments) July 11, 2014

https://twitter.com/owens_bill/status/492133259598237696

Read more about 3D Printed Bagpipes project here.

Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! We also offer the LulzBot TAZ – Open source 3D Printer and the Printrbot Simple Metal 3D Printer in our store. If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!