ideation + process

i began with rough sketches, inspired by tom sachs's "boom-box" retrospective. from there, i moved to cad iterations and additional research. about halfway through, i decided to incorporate a skyline diffuser for better acoustics. the speaker's main body is made from plywood, cut into layers using a cnc machine. to showcase the diffusers, i laser cut acrylic for the front panel. after cutting all the pieces, i glued the plywood layers together, tackling the challenge of achieving sliding pieces by gluing two layers at a time. once the glue was dry, i sanded the tabs and smoothed the surfaces. drilling holes in the fragile acrylic for the speakers was tricky. the best method to be drilling at high rpm with a slow feed rate. after mounting the speaker drivers to the acrylic, the final step was soldering the components.