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Fantastic DIY Speakers for less than $30!

Tech Ingredients · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

Audio & video engineering3D printing, CNC & maker projects

What it is

Tech Ingredients shows how to build cheap, high-performance flat-panel speakers using audio exciters on sheet materials such as foam-core board. It explains how distributed-mode speakers work and walks through experiments to find good designs.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Pointed to by hobbyists interested in building flat-panel DIY speakers from cheap materials.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “where he goes into all sorts of experiments he ran on the exciters to find the right design.”

    Experiments on cheap exciters to find the right speaker design.

    linsomniac, 2018-11 · Recommendation · in “Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-Of Cheap”

  2. “Interesting stuff.”

    First in a series of DIY flat speaker videos.

    staindk, 2022-04 · Recommendation · in “MIT researchers develop a paper thin loudspeaker”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: diy audio, exciters, distributed mode loudspeakers, foam core, speaker building

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