DIY Desktop Cube Speaker
A compact desktop speaker built from leftover teak wood and a PAM8610 amp, with a 4 inch driver and a 1.5 inch driver, sanded and polished into a tidy little cube for laptop audio.
So I had some old teak wood lying in the backyard, and thought I could use it to make a portable speaker.
The thought was ready to be pinned down, so I started planing the planks and got them cut into 6 pieces of 4 x 4 square inches.
I also had a PAM8610 amplifier lying around, so I managed to buy a 4 inch 30 watt driver and a 1.5 inch driver from the local electronics shop. I wanted to make a decent-sounding portable speaker for my laptop.
Materials required
- 6 equal pieces of 4 x 4 inch teak wood
- 1 PAM8610 amplifier kit
- 1 four inch driver
- 1 one-and-a-half inch driver
- Aux cable
- Battery: 12 volt, 2 to 2.5 Ah
- DC jack
- On/off switch
- Polish
- Basic soldering items
- ACP sheet, golden coloured
The build
After joining the plank pieces together, I was short of a wooden piece that could hold the four inch driver, so I used an 8mm MDF sheet to match it with the box, to be polished afterwards. The PAM8610 was wired to an aux pin and the battery. After all the connections, the speaker was ready to rock.
The parts were all taken out and the box was sanded with 320 grit after four rounds of sanding and polishing. After the polish was dry, the drivers were fitted and the speaker was ready to be tested.
Originally published on sslabs.in.