This Spinning Speaker Adds a Doppler Effect to Live Music
Ian Schneller’s double horn speaker creates waves of sounds with a Doppler-like effect.
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How to CNC a Subwoofer Enclosure for Your Car
This subwoofer enclosure project is made out of layers of CNC’d wood.
The 8 Coolest Projects We Saw While Biking Across Europe
Miriam and Madison saw a lot of cool projects while hopping from one European fab lab to the next. Here are 8 of the coolest.
Before and After: Vintage Radio with Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi has truly opened up all kinds of possibilities in custom entertainment. One of the most fascinating possibilities lies in replacing the guts of a vintage radio or other media device and enhancing its abilities while keeping the aesthetics of yesterday. Gordon, who studied computer science and works in the semiconductor industry, decided […]
Upcycle Glass Spheres into Unique Speaker Enclosures
If you were to create a speaker enclosure, conventional wisdom would have you starting with medium density fiberboard (MDF), or, possibly, some other wood product. Ryan Sweeney, however, decided instead to use a thick glass cylinder for each speaker, mounting them with cut bamboo. The idea for this came to him while he was working […]
Retro-Mod Speakers Made from Ikea Salad Bowls
If you’ve ever lusted after those iconic B&W Nautilus speakers (which cost a staggering $60,000), you might be interested in this Ikea hacker’s homage to audio gear that no one can actually afford. Using Ikea salad bowls, Damir Paco of Denmark created these unique speakers. To build them, he used three different sizes of the […]
3D Printable Death Star Shaped Speaker Enclosures
Rich Olson at nothinglabs has released a very cool parametric speaker enclosure on to Thingaverse. You can load up the page, set the right specifications for the driver of your choice, and print a Death Star shaped enclosure of your very own. These look absolutely fantastic, and according to Rich, sound fantastic if you find […]
