Hannah Perner-Wilson’s beautiful paper speakers
Hannah Perner-Wilson of Plusea has been exploring some amazingly beautiful sensors at MIT’s media lab that explore paper and ink-jet printed electronics. I particularly love these paper speakers and how she is challenging the aesthetics of the circuit patterning:
“Inspired by Marcelo Coehlo’s paper speaker and Vincent Leclerc’s Accouphene textile speaker, these paper and fabric speakers are made by running 5-9V amplified sound signal through a very conductive coil in close proximity to a magnet. Unlike most speakers that have the wire coil wrapped cylindrically and placed around the magnet, here the coil is in the plane and directly adhered to the membrane that moves the air creating sound.” Continue reading …
2 Comments
Andrew Kieran
April 5, 2011I love these paper speakers. I have been experimenting myself with fabric speakers after seeing these. I am using copper wire and have been stitching onto woven and knitted fabrics. I don’t get a particularly big sound.
I suspect the fabric serves to deaden the sound somewhat, paper is probably just a more suitable substrate all round
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