2 Way Orb Speaker

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I have always wanted to make a speaker in the shape of an orb or sphere. As I have never been really great at woodwork and I certainly do not have the equipment required to turn something like that out of a block of wood it never happened. Until... I got my 3D printer! I have been working on this design on and off and had a few attempts at printing the spheres. A few weeks ago I upgraded from my Cocoon Create 3D to a Cocoon Create 3D Touch (Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus) and with that I had another go. I scrapped all the designs I had made to date and started from a blank canvas and this design is the result. There is still room for improvement but I am quite happy with how it turned out. Just so you know - this speaker is most definitely not designed for sound quality, it is the look that I was after. So don't expect this unit to produce ultra HiFi sound - but, it does sound good enough for me to use it and to have now gone started designing an "orb amplifier" to complement it The "base" orb takes a standard 4" speaker (woofer). I purchased mine at Jaycar Electronics (Australia) but I am sure you can use anything you can get your hands on or you may already have laying around. The tweeter is an inexpensive 2" number I ordered from China (I could not find anything small enough and within my budget here readily available in Australia). I have not put any fancy filter in the unit (yet) all I have done is place a 6.8uF capacitor in with the tweeter to get the most simple cross over possible. Certainly room for improvement there but for now it does the job :) I would very much like to hear what you all think of my orb speaker and if you decide to print your own then please share some photos etc!! Update: I have just uploaded v2 of the stand and arm. These have a few small changes to make the arm fit more snug into the stand - this should help reduce the sagging of the tweeter orb Update update: the orb amp - a simple amplifier to hook your iPod (or other device with a headphone jack) is now available as a separate download https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2348151