my name is patrick. i'm a product designerand the founder of print+ print+ is a product line of do-it-yourself headphones thatenables people to print their own headphones the design of the headphone is such that,through the 3d models and the colors you can choose for the print materialsand our components, it becomes a fashion object the components of the print+ headphoneare available in 21 different colors together with all 3d printing materialsthis offers an infinite amount of possibilities to assemble a print+ headphone, you need2 types of parts those are the components that cannot be printed;the cables, speakers, and cushions and the plastic parts that you can print yourself
the source files are made availablein several file formats so that people with different software packagescan start working on them assembling a headphone is very straightforward,it takes you about 5 to 10 minutes with just a little bit of tooling the headphone is fully modular, so if the speakerbreaks you can replace just the speaker if the cable breaks you can replace that you know exactly how the headphone is made,and if you know how it's made and it breaks, you also know how to fix it another advantage is that you printthe plastic components locally
which makes the headphone smaller to ship in this way, you're shipping less materialacross the globe the ultimaker is a convenient tool thatallows us to make very fast iterations in our field as a product designer it is very user-friendly, reliable, quick and very flexible.you can print with a wide variety of different materials the print+ concept would not have been possible 5years ago, as 3d printing was still very inaccessible then very expensive and a time-consuming process now, you can draw a design in the morningand in the afternoon it rolls out of your printer
open source software for 3d printing,
also in terms of production it's exciting thatpeople can print their own headphones within a day in the future, more print+ kits will become availablelike the headphone maybe a flashlight, or in the distant futureperhaps a vacuum cleaner who knows what's going to come
