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Jun.14, 2012

A dodecahedron speaker can project sound wave in all direction and can be a great tool used for parties. It is very expensive if you buy one, but Maker Sean Ragan created a Dodecahedron Speaker in very low cost using a 3D printer.

His design of this 12-sided speaker uses a bunch of 3D printed parts such as plugs, bezels and face modules. These parts can all be 3D printed on a RepRap, MakerBot, Up!, MakerGear, Ultimaker, any of those DIY 3D printer as long as it has a build envelope of at least 122 × 122 × 14 mm. The total cost is just under $100 including parts and materials such as speakers, hardware, wires, cable etc.

The high symmetry of the dodecahedron is amenable to a modular design, and this one consists of four basic parts: the face modules, the vertex plugs, the edge gaskets, and the bezels. (NOTE: These models are also available on Thingiverse.) The speaker grilles are made from hardware store window screen cloth installed in the bezels using rubber spline and a screen roller tool, just like a residential window screen.

Each speaker is only rated at 3W, and they 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.

This 3D printed dodecahedron speaker can be a fun weekend project for tinkerers used for a summer party. Sean wrote an awesome and detailed tutorial on Instructables to help you out with building one for yourself, and he also shared all the model files on Thingiverse.

Source: Instructables

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