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Headphones are annoyingly prone to twisting and snapping, especially if they’re getting crammed into your bag everyday before heading off to work. And when they do break they get chucked, with all the electrical components still perfectly useable inside. Well now you can 3D print a new set with an entry level printer such as the MakerBot ‘Replicator’ and kit them out for just £10.
Desinger John Mabry from Teague, has has made the 3D data available as a free download on Thingiverse. Once the ten plastic bits are printed, all the electrical parts are simply push-to-fit, so no soldering is needed on your part. You’ll have to source the drivers and wires yourself, which will cost approximately £10, but once you do its a case of replacing them individually, rather than binning the whole lot. [Teague via Dvice]
Image credit: Teague
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Broken set of headphones? No need to go out and spend £60 on another good set. For just a couple of grand more you can get yourself a 3D printer and print yourself a flimsy, cheap looking, uncomfortable piece of plastic instead! Then all you need to do is remove all the electronic components from your old broken set, hire a product designer to design the new set so it will hold all the old components correctly, or source new components for another £10, find some foam to make into padding for around the ears, and then you can install them in the flimsy cheap looking frame and you’re good to go! It couldn’t be simpler!
You know all these £500 headphones use drivers that costs less then £10 right? Getting a £500 set of headphones for around £35 is a good deal, and you can always make some more and sell them on ebay.
Your alos not gonna just use a 3d printer once, if you actually use it and make stuff to sell then it pays its self off in a few months.
Actually I work with expensive headphones almost every day (I’m a music producer by profession) and I know that the drivers in the good headphones do not cost less than £10 to buy separately so I’m not sure what you’re talking about. As for running a business selling items made with the 3D printer to make owning the printer mmore affordable, well that is another thing altogether and quite unrelated to my point above. Again, not sure what you’re on about my friend.
Don’t remember saying to buy them individually.
You said the drivers cost less than £10. As in the drivers themselves, not including the headphones.