Potion Bottle 
Speaker

Project Overview

The Potion Bottle Speaker is a project from my DES 402 class which focuses on product design. For this project, the goal was to study different types of manufacturing processes, particularly injection molding and produce a working speaker prototype from it. As long as it's functional, and funnels sound properly, the form of the speaker could be anything. 

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I chose to do a potion bottle to reflect my love of fantasy and gaming. The bottle made from this project shouldn't come in contact with any liquids but it functions well as a speaker!

Digital Potion Bottle

​Details: 

While making this potion bottle, I had to take into account for tolerance and allowances to ensure that parts could fit in together. The form of the speaker is original, but the internal components are derived from one of Anker's speaker. The scope of the project does not include sourcing the internal components, although I did buy a longer ribbon cable for the buttons. Modeling a new form while being unable to change the sizes of anything was very challenging as I also needed the speaker to be held by human hands. 

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The two gems on the side are the volume up and volume down buttons. The cork on the top is the pause and play button, and the gem in front is the indicator light. On the back is the power switch, the charging ports as well as other ports and buttons.

Project Process Pics

Sketches

From the very beginning, I had to be thoughtful about where each placed and how it was oriented. To be compact enough to be held one handedly, much planning was needed,

Adapting for 3D Printing

Since injection molding is not accessible to me, the prototype needed to be 3D printed. With this new process, I had to change the model so it would be less fragile.