Maker Faire Lake County 2025
Make and Take - 3D Printed Bluetooth Speaker Drivers
Home: Illinois, United States of America
Come hand-wind and test a working 3D printed speaker driver for free, or even build and take home a complete working bluetooth speaker!
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Maker
Chris Bruce
Chris is a high school physics teacher, educational simulation and game developer, and 3D printing enthusiast with a love for DIY audio and robot combat. Chris sponsors his high school robotics club who compete annually at the District 214 Robot Rumble. Chris has been a featured speaker in educational technology and a regular presenter at Physics Northwest. In his spare time Chris is the owner and lead developer at Nerd Island Studios, LLC, creators of the free educational simulations and tutorials at www.simbucket.com and www.physicsclassroom.com, used by millions of students around the world. He is also the project lead for Robot Rumble 2, the world's premier robot combat simulator, used by thousands of robot builders, including Battlebots, Robot Wars, and NHRL competitors.
What Inspired You to Make This?
The project is based on and derived from Paul Ellis's (Polymate3d) groundbreaking work on 3D printed speaker drivers. It is a remix of his "Light 4" 3D printed speaker driver, adapted to create a complete portable bluetooth speaker in a Mason jar. I love DIY audio and 3D printing. I have always been interested in making speakers from scratch. 3D printing is a key enabling technology that allows anyone to design and build an entire speaker. Every part can be 3D printed, including the speaker drivers themselves! This is a project we do with our high school physics and electronics students, and it is a crowd pleaser.
