Laser Cut Seniors Music Player Project

 

The seniors (Y7/8 at our school, 12 and 13 year olds) once a week have our DPE (Design Production Engineering) subjects including laser cutting.

Laser cutting involves using our school laser cutter as we have detailed in previous posts on this blog.  

As another group of our students are nearing the completion cycle of their work they have been completing their new range of designs.   An example shown left is this MP3 player.    The unit is housed in a MDF laser cut rectangular box.   The student wanted to include some personalisation with the design the first aspect of which is the ears shown and the placement of the speakers to give the impact of eyes.

At the end of the box the student took a photograph and used the laser cutter to burn the image into the wood.

The box measures 280mm across is 140mm high and 140mm deep.

The student designed the dimension of the box, carried out the laser cutting and then used wood glue to glue the joins together.

The box can be further stained for a finish.    Additional details could be added by using the school 3D Printers or sticker machine to add decals.

Previously we used 3D printers to construct the speaker housing, which you can view via a post from 2015 here.

Student Perspective on 3D Printed Speakers

This is a student created video and shows the process (entire process) involved in the creation of the Auroa Primary School Technology DPE Program Speakers. Theses speakers feature speaker covers that have been 3D Printed by the students, feet and handles designed and printed by the students. The student explains and shows her work from the entire process. You can view previous details of the project, including the 3D Printed aspects of it below:

3D Printers: Speaker Technology Project

Full Speaker showing two
of the speaker covers and handle

Speaker Cover 

These photos represent the Technology created by students at Auroa Primary School during the students technology.

The students as noted have a range of subjects, the speaker boxes were created as part of the Woodwork technology cycle.  All additional external pieces for the speakers were created using Tinkercad and Printed using Ultimaker 2 3D Printers.

Students designed their own speakers and thus the handles were all custom made and designed for the individual speakers.   Two covers were created for each speaker and they were also 3D Printed.  The feet for the speaker were also designed and created by the students.

For those of you interested the speakers are two 15 Watt Channel speakers (total power 30 Watts) and they were controlled by an iPad/iPod/iPhone.  You can find additional information about the speakers from Tim@Mindkits.