Many people know the B&W Nautilus. I’ve never listened to those, but I love the design. With modern CNC machines it should be possible to create a similar speaker at home. Here starts the LoudSnail project. I will build a 2-way speaker that is equipped with a 13cm midwoofer and a small 25mm tweeter.

The first challenge: create a spiral base. This is relatively easy. I used a logarithmic spiral for it. Unfortunately FreeCAD has no spiral formulas build in. Therefore I had to write my own Python script to create this spiral. The result looks promising: