Teenage Engineering Speaker
Spring 2023 | 14 Weeks | Individual Project
Intent.
Design and fabricate a working bluetooth speaker based on a chosen brand and its identity. I decided to design for teenage engineering, I wanted to conceptualize a speaker for a maker space.
Features.
Test Prototype & Teardown.
All internal speaker components came from a Sony bluetooth speaker.
Chosen Brand.
“teenage engineering creates high quality, well designed, electronic products for all people who love sound and music.”
Utilizing the bright and fun utilitarian design of teenage engineering, this speaker is intended to be used in a maker space.
Sketching and Ideation.
Components Diagram and Orthographic Layout.
Prototyping.
Cardboard.
Acrylic.
Challenges.
During the prototyping phase, the bent handle was very challenging to produce. Heat bending acrylic makes it very brittle, many handles were broken. Secondly the dial switch was difficult to get working consistently.
Because the main components were repurposed, the switch pushes the button on by rotating a notch into it.
Dial Switch.
Handle manufacturing.
Full Prototype assembly.
Technical Drawings and Parts List.
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