A Dodecahedron Speaker for Desktop Printers
Description
Instructions
The assembled speaker array weighs 5.6 lbs, not counting the cable, and measures 7.5" across, from face to face, and 8.6" from point to point. The speakers are wired in a hybrid series-parallel circuit that brings the total array impedance to about 10 ohms (again not counting the cable) which should be a comfortable load for most amplifiers.
Non-printed parts ("vitamins")
12 pcs × speaker, square, ferrite 3", 8 Ohm, 3W, Jameco SP83W
10 ft × instrument patch cable, 18 AWG leads, such as Conquest Sound CS118
30 pcs × sex bolt (hehehe), combo truss head, zinc plated, 3/16" barrel, #6-32 × 3/8", Bolt Depot 14285
30 pcs × machine screw, combo truss head, zinc plated, #6-32 × 1/2", Bolt Depot 2887
60 pcs × split washer, #10, zinc plated, Bolt Depot 3023
108 pcs × wood screw, #4 × 1/4", black oxide or finish of your choice, such as McFeely's 0402-PSK
13 ft × screen spline, vinyl serrated, 1/8", black or color of your choice, such as Home Depot 3028737
3 sq ft × window screen, black or color of your choice, such as Home Depot 3003947
36 in × hook-up wire, stranded, 18AWG, white or color of your choice, such as NTE
18 in × hook-up wire, stranded, 18AWG, red or color of your choice, such as NTE
2 pcs × craft foam, adhesive-backed, 8.5 × 5.5" sheet, black or color of your choice, such as Fibre Craft
2 pcs × wire nut, orange, such as Ideal 73B
1 cu ft × glass wool, such as Owens Corning PINK
6 in × electrical tape
Detailed assembly instructions available here:
instructables.com/id/A-Dodecahedron-Speaker-for-Desktop-Printers/
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i just ordered some surplus ipod speakers, i think they are about 2 inches, so im going to scale this down. they have these chrome dust covers and i was thinking i might use the dish to distort a laser based on the sound.
Great job! I think I would use cladding silicone instead of gaskets for durability, adhesion and stretch tolerance. It also absorbs vibrations better.
Great tutorial and great idea, i'm making one!!!
Only one question, as i haven't any experience in this kind of speakers: HOW DOES THIS SOUNDS???
i mean the speakers are quite small....
Thanks! :-D
Excellent work. This whoops my monitor speaker mount that just failed to print properly. Have had much success using dense cushion foam as sound deadening material in test chambers. Usefully fireproof too =-X
"dodecaquadraphonic sound." Sounds awesome. Thanks for the great design.
Nice job! I particularly like the grills-nice detail that leavs the speakers looking polished. Thats one of the things we found most challenging in our laser cut dodecahedron speaker - in the end we went for that classic minimalist look! http://www.thingiverse.com/thi...
Thanks, and great to hear from you. I am quite aware of your Sputnik 17 project. I have followed the Thingiverse RSS feed religiously for years, or at least I did until I decided to enter this silly Instructables contest, and then every awesome thing that came up on T-verse started to undermine my confidence: surely my precious dodec speaker concept could never beat THAT. Your thing #21272 was the straw that broke the camel's back, and I stopped reading the feed for the sake of my own rapidly fraying nerves. Your design is easier to make than mine and includes a generator script so you can make various sizes and aren't locked in to using a particular speaker model. This is something I wanted to do, but didn't really have the time to figure out with my limited OpenSCAD skills. I was sure you were going to enter Sputnik 17 in the Make It Real challenge and kick my ass with it. It looks, now, like you didn't, as I far as I've been able to tell, for which I am very grateful. And even if you did, and I missed it, the deadline has passed, it's out of my hands, and I'm happy to let things shake out as they will over on Instructables. And I can go back to enjoying the T-verse RSS feed and finally say to you what I wanted to say when I first saw your project: Beautiful work!
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can you print the mesh?
Wondered about that. Would be difficult, and not very durable compared to windowscreen, I expect. But I didn't experiment at all. You should.