Final production

The circuity was not as difficult as I had first thought it would be, this is because of the fact that on of the speakers I took apart came with plastic frame that I could recycle and use as a foundation for the final case. The speaker consists of two 40mm 6 watt drivers and a sub-woofer in order to give a nice rich sound that can fill a room. The speaker has six buttons consisting of volume settings, toggles and pauses as well as a button that allows you to answer your phone calls. The speaker also has a USB.3 port for charging as well as a 3.5mm jack so that you can use it without using blu-tooth.

In the end I managed to make the entire body out of recycled materials. I used a dark cherry wood for the end pieces and used some plywood for some of the walls. I ended up using plywood due to the fact that most other wood types were out of my budget range. I accented the speaker with some birch wood which I though contrasted well with the dark wood I used on the ends. I recycled the mesh used in the front from an old speaker and cut it to size so that it would fit in my speaker.

In order to make the buttons I took some small steel rods cut them to size so that they were only slightly larger than the depth of the wood and placed them in holes aligned with the buttons on the circuit board. After doing all of this I sanded down the speaker to make it smooth and added some finishing touches. I wanted the speaker to look a bit rough around the edges for I felt that it gave it character and followed the somewhat surf vibe I was aiming for with my speaker design. After everything was done I then went onto gluing the leather onto the wood. I did this with super glue and placed the leather so that it would hold in the metal rods and not let them falls out..

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