From the sound of it, it's not a very good speaker. But then, that's not
quite the point. What's particularly cool there is that a team of
Cornell researchers
created the whole thing using 3D printers -- the plastic shell and
conductive and magnetic pieces. The speaker marks a step toward a larger
utopian vision where entire products are fabricated using such
techniques, not simply shells and other miscellany. That's still a ways
off, of course. Aside from the clear (or not so clear) sound issues,
there are some roadblocks. For one thing, there's the fact that the job
still required two separate printers for different components. Also, the
speaker had to be hooked up to wires to play the audio clip of
President Barack Obama name-checking 3D printing. Still, it's easy to
see in the short clip below where things may be going.
Stay Tuned, Video of 3D printing will be posted soon...
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