Deco Speaker

This is my first attempt at something practical but with some artistic aspect. I had this swag Bluetooth speaker from a conference that I was not a fan of. It worked fine, but it had deblinken lights and was a goofy pod type shape. I wanted to take the electronics out of it and create a more "sophisticated" shell for it. The era of art deco style radios is the inspiration for the design. This is the result. Disclaimer: I am not a professional designer, artist or anything of the sort. My CAD skills are self taught and I am all over the place on ideas and inspirations (who isn't?). I thought I'd share the results with the community in case anyone liked it and wanted to print it. Constructive input is welcome!

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

Prusa

Printer:

I3 MK3S

Resolution:

0.20

Infill:

15-25% (?)

Filament: Various PLA PLA Wood fiber, gold, silver

Notes:

Print the "SpeakerBody" and "BackCover" face down. No support needed. I used concentric internal fill pattern since the face on the build plate will be visible. I used a wood fiber PLA blend for the "SpeakerBody".

You will need to print quantity 6 of the "SilverBar". These end up getting glued in place. You may need to trim the elephant foot off them so they sit flush in the grooves of the "SpeakerBody". I used Silver PLA for these.

For the "FrontMesh" and "BackCoverGrill", I simply used settings in my slicer set to no top or bottom layer, a 2 layer perimeter and a triangle infill. I used 75% for the "FrontMesh" and 50% for the "BackCoverGrill". A silky gold PLA was used for these parts.

The "SpeakerMount" is designed to hold a 2 inch diameter speaker that I salvaged from the host BT Speaker. It is held in with hot glue and goes behind the "FrontMesh".

The magnets are roughly 0.250" diameter and .070" thick. This is what I had laying around. They are CA glued in place.

You will notice the magnet mounts on the speak body are not in the same plane. This was a mistake. I corrected for it on the back cover because I had already printed the speaker body (12 hours) and didn't want to redo it.

The vent in the back cover is necessary otherwise the bass doesn't get out. It sounds even better without the back cover on at all. You could skip the back cover to simplify things.

Category: Audio