Phone Acoustic Speaker
by
Badger Workshop
(IC: vlogger)
1 Material
$20
3 Hours
Advanced
I wanted an acoustic speaker to work with my IPhone. I keep a case on my phone and the speakers you can buy wont work with a case so I decided to make one for myself.
The first thing I did was to determine the thickness of the phone with the case on it. I could then plane some wood down to that thickness.
I marked out the width of the phone and the position of the speaker.
I then cut a channel in the wood for the sound to pass through. This meant cutting the wood into two pieces but it will all get sandwiched between more wood later.
I could glue the two piece that will make the channel into a backing piece of wood.
The top of the sandwich could then be glued on and clamped into place.
Wile I waited for the glue to dry, I made the base for the speaker. I found I scrap of the same wood and using a router cut a nice profile on the edge of it.
I wanted the phone to lean back in the stand at an angle. So when the glue had dried I cut a angle on the bottom of the piece.
There was a square hole on the side of the block where the channel for the sound came out. I wanted to attach some copper pipe to it so I drilled a 15mm hole, making the hole round.
I cut a small length of pipe and tapped it into the hole.
To the pipe I attached a 90’ bend and then pipe reducers. Each one would widen the aperture and make a funnel shape. As no water or gas was passing through these pipes I glued them together with some epoxy.
I gave it a coat of Danish oil and what was it all done.
{
"id": "4126842",
"alt": "",
"title": "",
"video_link": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fn1OZ51eBF0",
"youtube_video_id": "Fn1OZ51eBF0"
}
{
"width": 634,
"height": 357,
"showRelated": true
}
Thats it all done. Please watch my video for more information. If you enjoyed the video please subscribe to my YouTube channel for a new project every week.
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Suggested materials:
- Copper pipe fittings
Published August 8th, 2017 10:38 AM
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