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# Week 1
The first idea I had came from a product I saw in 2012 when I visited the laboratory of the company NCS is Carpi [https://ncs-company.com/](https://alessandro-cavallotti.gitbook.io/digital-fabrication/). They showed me a telephone loudspeaker that they had designed to amplify sound using the principle of the golden ratio. Starting from this idea I wanted to replicate it but using the constraints of the class:
* FLAT SURFACE
* MODULAR
* PARAMETRIC
* PRESS-FIT
* FOLDABLE
I looked up first at some online projects.
The first problem is to use flat surfaces to make something that is rounded. To achive this goal I decided to divide the design in different parts. I would start with the base of the spakear first as a flat surface.
**First Golden Ratio (Base of the Speaker)**
**First Extrusion of the Golden Ratio (Base of the Speaker)**
**Removing the center part to use less material and save time when printing**
**Creating holes in the base frame for the press-fit sides**
**Adjusting the position and size of holes around the frame**
To make the speaker more creative and theoretically more powerful, I wanted to make the size of the speaker follow the golden ratio. So I calculated the length of the end of the speaker where the sound should come out as 3 x 1.61803398875 x the length of the segment at the entry point of the speaker and then reshape the speaker according to this proportion.
On Thursday I was able to go to the lab and print the base.
After seeing the result I wanted to add the first pice of the press-fit side of the project so I designed the fitting pice for the smaller hole. In designed just the frame so I would use less material and time just to see it the sized and the design would work when bended.
Finally I printed the component and tried to press fit it with the speaker base.
It passed the press-fit test, but some improvements are needed due to the size of the base of the side, which was too large and once inserted, a small part of the object comes out at the bottom, which is not optimal for stability on flat surfaces.
I never used Autocad Fusion 360, nor had I ever printed anything on a 3D printer so the first step was the learning of the tolls following the tutorials provided in class and some additional guidance by the professor Di Vozzo.
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