IDEA 20090606 Laoban Speaker Workshop

The Laoban Speaker Workshop is set to create custom Laoban speakers with simple Chinese parts. There are a few sections to the workshop:


 * Discussion about Laoban concept and speaker design
 * Basics of acoustics
 * Tour of Bass Box Pro speaker software
 * Idea behind Laoban and Creative Commons licensing plans
 * Shanzhai Culture in China
 * Dissassemble the small speaker for parts list, take pictures of the parts
 * Make a parts list, and get it, and/or find other cases or parts depending on personal modifications
 * Develop listed plan for re-assembling the parts into either simple configuration, including steps to recreate written here
 * Cut necessary materials
 * Assemble materials into parts
 * Test the box
 * Take picture and video of speaker and post up on flickr, vimeo, youtube and link here

Chinese Speaker
Input the following numbers into bass box pro for the laoban baby speaker driver.

Driver Properties Type: Standard one-way driver No. of Drivers = 1 Fs = 150 Hz Qms =  3.39 Vas = 1.29 liters Xmax = 1.25 mm Sd =  78.5 sq.cm Qes =  1.43 Re = 3.6 ohms Le = 0.7 mH Z =  8 ohms Pe = 50 watts

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People
''Copy the following section and change all the parts for your own workshop

ADD YOUR NAME HERE

 * Register for an account on this wiki with your fullname like, and replace the following text with your name: Jon Phillips (then login and delete this bullet point)
 * List your parts list here, including pictures for the plans
 * List your steps here for assembling your speaker
 * If you develop separate box or plan, upload file here or onto web and place link here (NOTE: The license for your plans, CC BY-SA 3.0)
 * Place media online on some of these sites depending upon how you document your work: your site, http://facebook.com, http://flickr.com, http://vimeo.com, http://youtube.com, right here!