Nico Karpf

I am probably most satisfied with the end result, as i didn't know how this was going to go when I varied my design. If I were to start over, I would most likely try to use the other wires that build stronger connections in the soldering, because towards the end of the speaker's completion, wires fell out, ultimately breaking my bluetooth module. In future projects, I need to make sure I have enough wood, because I needed to use MDF at the end since I had no extra wood.

This is me sanding my glued body. I finished that in our 45 minute class, and I will be cutting out panels to fill the hole after the break.

So far, I have cut my wood into six pieces and cut thirty degree angles on the sides. After this picture was taken, I glued them together to make my hexagon. The process was fairly simple, but it just took me a while to figure out how to do it.

These are pictures of my finished soldered amplifier circuit. The process was actually very fun because I could understand my circuit map. I learned that it matters where you put the positive side in the green brick that connects the speaker to the circuit.

This is a picture of my breadboard before it was fully working. I had a lot of trouble trying to read the schematic, but eventually I understood it. At this stage, I wasn't aware of what was short circuiting but I realized that I should just simplify everything to help me see whats wrong. That helped me reorder the pieces and figure out that I just had too many cords which kept me from figuring out that one spot on the breadboard was attached to both positive and negative.

This is a picture of my final circuit map. This time around, I felt that it was easier to replicate my schematic, as opposed to my process with the breadboard. I remembered from my breadboard incident that I overcomplicated things so I made sure to simplify my process, which made things much easier.



The first two drawings were not my idea. Those were Elliott's designs, and for my project, I don't need a visualizer. So, since I'm collaborating with Elliott, I drew his designs. For the last design, however, I drew an LED ring around my speaker, just in case we needed a design that would fit with our own projects.

The assignment was to create ten viable speaker designs, and it was meant to help you lay out all of the ideas about speakers and choose one that best fits you. Out of all of these designs, I really enjoyed the watch, the la crocs can, the Duracell battery, and the box with the indents visually. I was told that the box speakers would sound the best and the cylinder speakers are viable, however much more challenging. Eventually, with enough narrowing down, I found that the Duracell battery was my favorite design.


1. "Gain experience programming for audio"

  • I want to have enough knowledge to be able to find out what may be wrong with someone else's speaker/audio and be able to fix it.
  • I also want to further understand schematics.

2. "Design for a balance of sonic quality and visual interest"

  • I would love to build a speaker I'll be visually proud of.
  • I want to be able to proudly show it to people and use it often.

3. "No one succeeds unless we all succeed"

  • I believe that no one should be left behind
  • I've been in that position before and I don't want that for anyone