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Darren Wright

Darren Wright

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I came across this on youtube the other day. The gentleman designed the enclosure and the electronic components to play music saved on the device for his elderly father in memory care, which was designed to be easy to use. One simply turn of the knob turns on the device, which is also the volume, and the mp3 play list just start playing. There is a simple button on top, which can skip to the next song and such.


I like the static/tuning audio he added also when turning it on.

I'm printing one for my wife for her amazon echo to go into, but may make the off-line mp3 player version for my mom, as she tends to listen to her same playlist all the time and gets frustrated trying to find the right app on her phone.

Here are the files: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2163838-my-vintage-radio-offline-am-style-music-player
 
Tried out the print sequence on the Bambu software, which let’s you print different colored parts on the same plate. Rather than it jumping around and only printing the a color on one slice and changing color, it finishes printing parts in different one color, then switches to what it needs for just that part or parts. When finished, it moves to another part of the bed with either the same color or what ever color that part needs to be.
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Also go the grill printed, using wood filament.
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It had a bunch of tree supports that had to be carefully pealed off the back.
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Got about half the parts done, but may reprint some of the silver parts in a “silky” silver pla when it comes in a few days.
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I’m also going to try some wood veneer on the front panel, cut on the laser.
 
Cut some Sapele veneer on the laser for the front bezel. Took a couple of tries as the veneer was rolled up and is paper thin. It kept wanting to roll when the laser cut it, which threw off the cut on the opposite side in some places. If I do many more I'll add some tabs to cut with an exacto after.
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Used a little golden pecan stain to darken it slightly. Once it drys I'll shoot it with some spray lacquer or poly, which ever I have on hand.
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Darren Wright said:
Took a couple of tries as the veneer was rolled up and is paper thin. It kept wanting to roll when the laser cut it, which threw off the cut on the opposite side in some places. If I do many more I'll add some tabs to cut with an exacto after
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It might be worth facing it with some paper facing and then just scrub that off after you apply the veneer to your finished piece. That'd both help keep it flat and also provide a little support on those thing pieces while assembling. The tabs would undoubtedly help as well.
 
Great project, and great results, modelling this must have been pretty hard.

Not wanting to hijack your thread.
This is the radio that my parents got when they married, I grew up with it and when they changes the voltage from 125 to 220 we stopped using it, it has a blown lamp or so I think and I've been wanting to repare it since but my knowledge is nil. Probably it will end on the garbage.:(
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