Designing a dome faceted loudspeaker

[DeepSOIC]

Hi!
It's been a while I haven't done a nice project. Now, I think I'm on to a nice one modeling-wise.

I want to build a hemispherical speaker, covered with small drivers. I want some nice pattern. I remember that golf ball contest - that's good, but that's waay too many speakers.

So the first thing I did was converting @ulrich1a's Macro Geodesic dome to be parametric, so I can more easily play with it.
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-macros/pull/41

Having that one done, I went on experimenting. The domes are very nice, but they are made of triangles. Triangles are not the best, they are pretty far from being round. So I tried to make something that closer resembles a dodecahedron, by truncating a dome. Here are some shapes I got:

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dome - base shape.FCStd

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This one is the first one that looks reasonable. It has quite a bit of wasted surface. But at the same time, it should allow for some room for the speakers to not interfere on the inside. And it has a clear parting plane.

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This one is the same as above, but with a bit more truncation. This one is very surface-efficient, but many sides are cut off by quite a bit by the parting plane.

With more facets comes better surface efficiency:

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big dome for future.FCStd

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Now this one would be crazy big, and I don't have a large enough 3d printer to print this. But I take a note, this is an interesting design, may work with very small drivers.

That's all for now =) I hope for more progress soon.

[Jee-Bee]

What that is on my long list. I want to create a monopole speaker.
So i save this page

[bejant]

A good use case for Lattice2, and all the Extrudes look pretty cool:

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It reminds me of another topic, about a month before you joined the forum, DeepSOIC:
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7118

[Joyas]

Thanks for sharing your model.

[DeepSOIC]

Some progress.

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Slicing is tricky... Still not happy with the result.

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[schupin]

Nice work (even if it's in progress )

What is the lattice motif you're using to fill in your dome ?
You designed it by yourself or it's defined in your slicer ?

[DeepSOIC]

What is the lattice motif you're using to fill in your dome ?
You designed it by yourself or it's defined in your slicer ?

It's slic3r's "gyroid" infill (cool AF). I think it's a feature of slic3r prusa edition only, the Alessandro Ranellucci's one I think doesn't have it. Also I think it's there in Cura.

[DeepSOIC]

Printed!

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Drivers not wired up, and the enclosure not sealed yet. Just dropped them in to see how they fit


EDIT: the model!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Lpgt3 ... joe3HKGtvh
(1.1 MB)

[kkremitzki]

It looks very cool, I'm very curious as to how that will end up sounding!

[triplus]

Looking good.

P.S. If it sounds good ... That we will just have to wait and see, and hear.