3D Printed CAD Modeled "Enclosure" | Transparent PVC Vinyl Wrap | Recycled Audio Components
Functioning Speaker Playing You got time and I got money by Smerz
Design Reasoning
Drawing inspiration from Dunne and Raby’s Hertzian Tales, I set out to design a speaker that utilizes its electromagnetic field as a means of aesthetic. The open-frame enclosure allows the speaker to visually express the presence of electromagnetic activity. These free wires and PCB act as a sculptural representation of the invisible energy radiating from within. The image in Fig. 1 showcases the hidden visuals of EM fields from electronic object.
In an era when digital technologies are increasingly miniaturized, seamless, and designed to disappear, this speaker packages electronics as both structure and spectacle.
Fig. 1 - Plotting leaky EM Fields for a telephone, computer, printer and fax machine
Fig. 2 - The Faraday Chair, providing shelter from electromagnetic fields invading our homes
Images © Dunne & Raby. From Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design, 1999. Source: https://dunneandraby.co.uk/content/projects/67/0
Process
Modeled in Solidworks and 3D Printed
Components from Speaker Found at Goodwill