Custom Speaker

Status: completed
Progress: 100%

Build Log

I wanted to make speakers for my desk. I wanted them to be unique and diffrent from the average speaker, the quality did not really matter to me, as long as it sounded decent. In the past I built audio reactive lights, I grabed the raw audio signal and used Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to make fancy animations! So I tried to combine them! a speaker with a transpernt front with a ring of LEDS that dance!

As a good amount of my projects here, This is writen after I "finished" this project. so this is more of a post dev log

As I said in the intro, from what I remebered, I wanted speakers for my desk. Before starting the designing, I new I wanted 2 speakers that have a unique look to them. After some back and forth I settled on a egg shape. I liked the way this looked and it had a flat surface for it the lay on and it was a shape I can easily 3D print!
I knew I wanted it to be 3D printed and with my FDM printer I knew I was going to have some bad layer lines on the inside of the speaker throwing off some of the quality of the sound, but quaility was not a priority for me. Because I was using my printer and I had some translucaint filament on hand, I made the front out of that so it was able to show off the lights.

I was using the Teensy as the brains for the effects. I noramly use a ESP32 as the brains but for this project, i needed the extra horse power that the Teensy has. I needed the hardware support for the speed, This had to be as fast as possible so the lights would sync up correctly with the audio. I split the audio signal with out any delay directly into the speaker and into the Teensy.
I used FFT's to grab the patterns out of the audio signals and made some sort of "heart beat" out of it for the light to dance along with.