I'm an artist & maker. A lifelong biblioholic, and advocate for all-things geekathon. Home is Long Island City, Queens, which I consider the greatest place on Earth. 5-year former Resident of Flux Factory, co-organizer for World Maker Faire (NYC), and blogger all over the net. Howdy!
Weekend Projects makers John Hall and Scott Vincent wrote in with their experience building the MonoBox Powered Speaker, a low current power amplifier circuit built around the LM386. These two builds really epitomize the aesthetic customizations capable with this project, with one version built into a portable rugged metal enclosure (that Scott had to troubleshoot for metal-on-metal rattling) and another version designed to be permanently plugged in. It looks minimalist, but sounds big!
Thanks for writing, John and Scott! Did you build a Weekend Project? Send us an email with pictures and a story, and you could appear here on the MAKE blog.
20 thoughts on “MonoBox Mods: Same Circuit, Two Builds”
chucksays:
Cool builds! This was a great project. I used it to put an internal amplified speaker in a recent project. I also shop at Skycraft from time to time and they are awesome. There’s always something that I didn’t know I needed until I saw it there.
Justinsays:
I too built a speaker based off of the monobox amp. I included a raspberry pi and a wifi usb to make a wireless airplay speaker. Blog write up
Nick Normalsays:
Looks great! Thanks Justin. I’ll get this online soon. Your other projects look great too.
MAKE | AirPi Wireless MonoBox Speakersays:
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salsamansays:
Nice builds!
MAKE | The Endlessly Modded MonoBox Powered Speakersays:
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I'm an artist & maker. A lifelong biblioholic, and advocate for all-things geekathon. Home is Long Island City, Queens, which I consider the greatest place on Earth. 5-year former Resident of Flux Factory, co-organizer for World Maker Faire (NYC), and blogger all over the net. Howdy!
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Cool builds! This was a great project. I used it to put an internal amplified speaker in a recent project. I also shop at Skycraft from time to time and they are awesome. There’s always something that I didn’t know I needed until I saw it there.
I too built a speaker based off of the monobox amp. I included a raspberry pi and a wifi usb to make a wireless airplay speaker.
Blog write up
Looks great! Thanks Justin. I’ll get this online soon. Your other projects look great too.
[…] this project has been built into a cigar box, an Italian cookie tin (with status LED), and a recipe box and ammo canister, among other builds. Now Weekend Projects maker Justin writes in with his version of this project, […]
Nice builds!
[…] left a how-to question on the project page and Scott Vincent who previously built the MonoBox into an ammunition can responded. It’s great to see one maker lending another a helping […]
[…] left a how-to question on the project page and Scott Vincent who previously built the MonoBox into an ammunition can responded. It’s great to see one maker lending another a helping […]
[…] This project was featured on the Make Blog: MonoBox Mods: Same Circuit, Two Builds […]
[…] with a wireless adapter and Raspberry Pi, adapted for two speakers, and modded into a boom cube, ammo can, and cigar box, among other novel […]
[…] with a wireless adapter and Raspberry Pi, adapted for two speakers, and modded into a boom cube, ammo can, and cigar box, among other novel […]