Creo Development

 
Starting with pre designed circuit boards and speakers, I could develop my housing accurately, knowing that the speaker fittings etc would fit in.

 
I created the pattern I needed in order to represent the James Bond circle, and then cut it down to the surface I needed. I think this is very effective, and recognisable as the James Bond image.

Taking the sketch from the front panel piece I had just designed, I could then create the back part to my speakers, shelling it so that the circuit board and wires can fit in, and also so the speakers have plenty of room to vibrate and create the best sound possible. In order to produce this component, I had to use the flat bed router to cut out layers that I would then glue together to create this shape. The bottom image shows how I changed the file to an STL in order for the Rapid Pro software to recognise my design. I created holes top and bottom of my back panel to help me line up the layers once they had been machined. There are more pictures of this process and more detail later in my blog :)

I also created the grid for my speaker covers on Crio. I tried to make the holes as small as possible and get as many of them as possible, and still achieve a quality sound. I took this idea from my Apple inspiration pages. This is because on the MacBook Pro for example, the speakers are covered by a grid with thousands of tiny holes! I preferred this idea as opposed to the speaker covers you would find on an amp for example, as these holes/spaces in the grid are very large and there is very few of them. I created my speaker grids on the 3D rapid prototype machine as this was the best way to achieve the effect of the MacBook speakers that I was going for.