Homemade Glass iPod Speakers
2:14 am, August 29th, 2005,
Spotted on Flickr, a homemade iPod speaker system from someone called ianbrown42 (surely not the great Ian Brown):
“These are remote iPod speakers I scratch-built for my wife’s iPod shuffle. It’s all scientific glass and aluminium construction. The sub-woofer is an inverted glass dome, and a fresnel lens from a rail-car. The guts of the thing is borrowed from a stock computer amp, whilst the speakers themselves are Apple Pro’s.”
“You can see from this alternate view that the tripod legs are made from aluminium garden trowles, polished up.
You can see the CD player I used to test it in the bottom right corner – this thing is huge, and weighs a ton (15 kilos).
The sound is pretty good, as you would expect of apple speakers, but the sub-woofer thumps a bit. Overall a fun project!”
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That’s way cool.
Froggy, on August 29th, 2005 at 7:03 pm
thats a true acheevement for homemade pair of speakers well done fukn stunning
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