DIY Battery Powered Bluetooth Speaker // How To Build - Woodworking
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Blog Post with Detail Electronics Explanation : craftedworksho... I built this rechargeable, battery-powered, portable Bluetooth boombox speaker using the Parts Express C-Note speaker kit plus their KAB amp board (links to all parts below). This was my first speaker build and I am honestly amazed at how awesome this thing sounds.
🎧 Thanks to Kirby Meets Audio for helping out with the planning, check his channel out here: / @kirbymeetsaudio
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I've watched bunches of videos like this, I built 7 boomboxes on my own and I can officially say that this is the best one I've ever seen, good job!
My first job was soldering audio jacks for an entire summer so I got pretty good at it. I ended up working at that place for almost 10 years. I'd say you did a really good job for your first time soldering. Here are my two biggest tips: 1 - put a dab of solder on the tip of the gun before touching it to the wires. This helps transmit heat from the iron to the wire. You want the wires hot enough to melt the solder, otherwise you'll get a cold joint that could break or have lots of resistance. 2 - Use spring clamps to hold your parts. Just put them on their side and clamp the part in place.
Thanks for the tips!
Blog Post with Detail Electronics Explanation : craftedworkshop.com/blog/how-to-build-diy-battery-powered-bluetooth-speaker
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If it sounds anything like it looks, it must be amazing. Such an awesome project!
Trail Features thanks man!
DUDE!!!!!!!! Great project and she is Beautiful I’m heading to my shop now to take a set of 18yr old computer speakers my good friend Dave gave last week and do the same. Unbelievable that he has had them that long and they sound great. They come with a separate subwoofer.
This looks great!! The only addition I would do is to install a couple of 12v 8Ah batteries and charger so you can make it a portable great looking boombox! It will require some additional electronics to convert 110v to 12v, to measure charge and stop charging when full... but I think it would be totally worth it!
I use 18v power tool batteries in a reciver shoe, then step that down to 12v for a class 'D' amp.
** dO It YoUrSelF ** with at least 100k worth of wood working tools...... :p
normal MEN have all little cheap tools in home or garage and lot lot more tools too. no expensive, ewer no 100K haha. normal need only some clamps ,i have 4 pcs cheap and no need more. tablesaw have ewery normal men in home, same hand router, and hand planer, all other can do diy in home workshop, planer frame, jointer, circle jigs, no need lot tools can made all same.
A lot of the tools in this are pure convenience. Almost all of these things can be done with hand tools.
@@farrit thats how i make mine. i sure as hell aint got all these fancy tools.
yeah, if i had my dads table top drill press, table saw, radial arm saw, and table jig saw. he spent over 1 g's and 5 years to collect. all i have are hand saws and hand tools.
@@abalczon im going to make a portable radio into an ammunition can. i can power it with a 20amp 12 v power supply and power jacks found on amazon.
Very nice speaker build. But most of us don't have all the fancy tools to do this. I built one out of plywood and car stereo media player and car speakers. 12 volt LiFEPo4 battery and charger and sounds great , no foam inside and an vent hole on front panel. did I mention it sounds great. Lots of bass and good overall full range sound. I use it at work on my tool box. I may build a second one for home use or to replace the one at work and use that at home. will see.
For more videos on speakers builds, can’t recommend Kirby Meets Audio enough!
Ashley Bennett for sure! I linked him in the video description and cards, he helped with the planning of this build.
Crafted Workshop Didn’t notice the link, kudos! Love his channel, apart from he never squats next to his finished builds 😂
Hah!
This is soooo cool!!! I love the way it turned out and that walnut is just gorgeous! Excellent, Johnny!
Thanks Cris!
Build an amp for your Uke like this.
Double Dare Fan YES! Even if she just rebuilt the cabinet and swapped the components from her amp over, that’d be awesome.
Wow - Awesome. It's so refreshing to see a speaker build by a woodworker. Accuracy, detail and great looks.
Thanks a lot Danny!
You truly are a master craftsman. I haven't seen a craftsman like you since the New Yankee Workshop on PBS back in the 90s.
Thanks, Norm is my hero! Watched him with my dad growing up.
Great project, looks awesome!!!! Can't get enough of your French cleat wall in the background. Best background of any TH-camr maker I follow.
Jimmy z hah, thanks man! I love that wall, really the perfect background for a maker TH-camr.
Great fun building three of these. Two went to my boys as Christmas gifts. The other is for my wife and me to use at lake side in the North Georgia mountains.
Really clean. I liked the router fix for the hole.
Josh Desser thanks Josh!
My daughter and I build a set of c-notes. I recognized them in your thumbnail haha. That box must sound awesome, the c-notes are great. The only downside is that you're missing the great imaging these speakers have by putting them so close together.
Have Drone Will Travel that’s funny! And yea, it sounds great but I’m definitely not getting as much separation as keeping them separate.
I'm still blown away when I hear the c-note. That's the best sounding $100 you can spend I think. And this box, in walnut, it looks as good as it sounds.
Yup, the C-Notes are known for their incredible imaging (for the $$.) Almost a waste to use them in this application. I bet they still sound good. I do wonder if a cheaper set of drivers would work well in this boom box. Worth researching if I build one.
I like how you used a crossover to better produce the low and high frequencies separately for a clearer and better soundstage audio output. The cabinet was also created flawlessly which is a nice combination for hifi audio.
Thanks! The boombox sounds amazing and the battery life really is phenomenal.
Nice to see someone who uses dampening material to improve sound. Also, that is a crazy cool shop. And, you have some sick skills. Beautiful build.
Super cool. Love that you adapted the kit to a boom box size. Impressive work.
Luke Dorny thanks Luke, definitely a fun project!
It's Shawn Spencer (James Roday- rodriguez) "I've heard it both ways"
Thanks for the tutorial bud. Keep up the good work!
Awesome build, Johnny! Curious to see how the walnut holds up with the vibration of the speakers. Keep us in the loop!
Matthew Hicks thanks, definitely will! I think it should be totally fine, Fender uses Pine on a ton of their amp cabinets and clearly that’s working for them.
Let me say... You are really impressed... Hah I am really impressed with the Bluetooth speakers that have been connected to batteries with a box that big and a sound loud enough to shatter a ear drum... Amazing project good luck.
Dude how did you do a boombox video and not get at least one shot channeling your inner early 90's and have it on your shoulder?! Great project! Nice to see your progression on here from the early days. Keep it up!
Thanks a lot James!
i have the C-Note kit on my table right now. The walnut was a great choice!
Shawn Trombley thanks Shawn, great kit for sure.
Great tip to flip the jointer faces!
Looking badass! Can't go wrong with choosing walnut... so gorgeous.
Thanks!
Nice done !!
Looks great man! I’ve been wanting to build one like this for some time now! I’m very happy you went with walnut, it’s a beautiful wood that looks great for this type of thing!
How many incredible machines do you have?
Dang! Turned out so nicely Johnny! The walnut and heavy edge treatments really make it pop! Super modern looking.
Adrian Orozco thanks Adrian!
Dang!!! Hope this is under the tree for your Mama this year. Love it!!!
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Amazing results! Your title says it is battery powered - but you didn't really mention anything about how that is done. Was this actually battery powered or did you wind up just using wall power for it?
I'm looking for a similar kit to build, but I don't need battery power...
Keep up the awesome work!
Yea I kind of glossed over it, but it is battery powered. The amp board I used has a plug and play battery pack, which I linked to in the video description. You can see me install them when I installed the amp and crossovers, they’re bright green. I installed two packs and the speaker has been playing on battery for 36 hours straight at this point, crazy!
Love watching how skillfully you put this awesome speaker project together. Great job!
Thanks a lot!
really loved that project. Greetings from Greece
Κωνσταντίνος Βλαχογιαννάτος thanks, that’s awesome!
With all these fancy machines in that workshop, its almost not like a DIY. Takes the fun out of it.
But surely its well made.
Just beautiful
jaroslaw roczniak thanks!
Looks great! I like the sapwood at the bottom.
StudioJLT thanks, that worked out nicely!
Nice build! The walnut is stunning and the build looks top notch!
Shaun Guthrie thanks Shaun!
Sweet project Johnny. I’ve had speakers on my build list for a while, feeling inspired now.
Craig Francis go for it, super rewarding build!
OUTSTANDING! Think I'll build one myself now. Thanx for the confidence.
Awesome, have fun!
This is a top 3 video for me that you've put out. Great job, I want to build one now!
Jason Watts that’s awesome, thanks Jason! I really had fun building it.
Man that turned out awesome!
John Miller thanks John!
Today I managed to put the light switch in the middle...
lies!!!
Drinks and Finger Food gghhh
tom
Sees thumbnail: cool, I’m totally gonna build that!
Watches video: ain’t nobody (me) got time (or tools) for that! Great work though!
aemediainc Sounds like a blues song to me. I also agree, these guys do great work but they also have more tools and attachments than the average Joe (me) lol.
Looks really good and sounds as good as it looks! Thanks!!
Steven Kofoed thanks Steven!
Beautiful speaker
Thanks!
Nice. Love the overlapping bass and tweeters.
Fantastic build, looks awesome!
Dinusha Chandratilleke thanks!
Gorgeous case...great deal on kit, Parts-Express is out until mid-Jan. Speakers and Tweeters alone are $138
Yea it is a killer deal for sure, and they sound outstanding. Thanks!
Parts Express is amazing. Awesome build.
James Foskey yup, they’ve got everything for this type of build, so many options! Thanks!
That turned out amazing!
Jess Peterson thanks Jess!
Very cool project Johnny!! It turned out looking great
JT Woodworks thanks!
Looks amazing Johnny .I'm pretty sure it sounds great too. That is something to be proud of
Franks DIY thanks a lot, it definitely sounds awesome!
Sir you are my fav youtuber😘
Wow! That speaker turned out beautiful!
Thanks!
Nice job! Looks like a Klipsch meets Marshal vintage speaker!
Dan Conlan thanks!
Crafted Workshop do you mind telling me how much the speaker,amp,batteries cost?
Thanks, DC
Links to all of the parts are in the video description!
Great job bo❤
Maybe my favorite project of yours to date. The Walnut looks so good and the round over bit turned out great too.
Thanks a lot!
nice comb filter
I think this looks amazing!
red12287 thanks!
This one was worth the wait! Gorgeous speaker build Johnny!
Modustrial Maker thanks Mike!
Verry cool project! Great job!
Dutch shed woodshop thanks!
This woodworking is remarkable, keep up the good work!
WOW! Great idea and excellent execution, I love this!
Clint Strause thanks Clint!
Really cool Johnny! 👍🏻📻👊🏻
Fred McIntyre thanks Fred!
Fred McIntyre 🎵🎶
Such a dope project dude. Nice work on this! I’ve been wanting to make one for myself for a long time now.
Tennessee Builds thanks, go for it!
Very simple if you have the tools you need
Need to make a Bluetooth speaker so I can listen to some music in the workshop. Your boom box looks nice
Nice and clean work borther
Thanks!
Looks great!
Thanks!
That is gorgeous! Beautiful job!
That is very beautiful and elegant boombox!
What I not understood, was the trick for jointing the glue edges.
Any additonal explanations you can give, very appreciate. Thanks a lot.
Hey Sergio, go check out Jay’s video, he explains it really well! th-cam.com/video/amsBkAOXji4/w-d-xo.html
just perfect build
Get yourself a resaw king blade for your bandsaw. Lasts forever.
Would have been nice to see an in depth section dedicated to the power distribution. The first word in the description is BATTERY and yet you have nothing in the video indicating how you handled that.
Go check out the blog article. Detailed electronics info is a little dull for video, this amp board is modular and has readily available battery packs that can plug into it. Super simple.
Wonderfull project
Neil F thanks Neil!
I have never seen this kind of speaker before, it's just amazing
That is an awesome build! Classic look with new tech. Great video, thanks!
Alot of time for this one.
Seth was right, very satisfying to watch!
Thanks man!
I might add some sort of speaker grill to protect those bad boys if you're really using it as a portable boombox.
Nah I would disagree ur clearly no educated on boom box components
Does the black plastic shell act as a protector? is that good enough? I honestly don't know much about it, was just going off of how it looked.
Carlos Perea yea I’ve definitely thought about it. Portable for me means taking it out on my patio when we’re hanging out there, not like going camping with it. In that case, a grill would definitely be a good idea.
looks great
Sacha Hächler thanks Sacha!
Good job man looks great
John Grech thanks John!
That looks great! 👍
Set the bad boy near a corner to get some serious bass! :)
Nice work, I never imagined I'd see so many amazing C-note builds! Or variations of... Lol
Thanks for sharing!
By the way, the ports on the bottom are no problem, lol.
Chris Perez thanks Chris! I just realized you designed the C-Note kit, that’s super cool. I bought the kit on a whim after hearing such great things on the r/diyaudio subreddit and they’ve been sitting, waiting to be built, for months. And glad to hear bottom ported is approved 😊
Hey Johnny and Chris... I built a pair of C-Notes last winter and love them--my first DIY speaker project. I've been thinking about exactly this type of project for awhile now. Any thoughts as to whether it would make sense to tweak the crossover for some baffle step correction for this configuration, considering the baffle is now twice as wide and both speakers are essentially on the same baffle? ...or would that be overkill for this purpose? Great job on the build Johnny! Chris thanks for giving us the C-Notes!
I'll just buy one
Your shop is crazy! Good work
Thanks!
I love your work just don’t like the speakers positions.
alas have to agree there, the case is awesome, but ... the positions seem off. You want as much distance between tweeters as possible. Now the original C-Note speaker kit has that same overlap on their show models too but there it is a left and right speaker each with their own box. In a design like this you want to maximize the distance as high notes are far more directional than low notes (which is why bass speakers are usually a single box placed in the center)
Beautiful work!
Great build Johnny! I'd love to bring a speaker like that to the beach, it looks awesome!
That’d be great!
Beautiful job!
Thanks!
Nice project but I think you make it look easier than it is. A lot of skill and trial and error is required for something like this.
AND a lot of money to buy all that nice tools. If I would try to make this with my "average Joe" tools, it would take at least 4x as long and look much more "homemade" 😩
That looks awesome and hard to do.
Tony bp definitely challenging but worth the effort!
The walnut makes it pop!
Love this build, looks amazing! Could you please share the finished dimensions of the speaker? Definitely adding this to my list to build, nicely done!
Awesome job! I'm looking to do a similar design utilizing 2 Tang Band W5-1138SMF subwoofers.
I love it! The wood choice and stain was a really nice touch. The only thing I had a gripe with (probably because of my own design OCD) is the fact that the tweeter circle and the mid-sub overlapped. Only if you had another 3 inches or so of height, it would be perfect! Or better yet, smaller tweeter frames?
I've always wanted to build my own home theater speakers. How much time did it take to put this together?
Actually, the overlap is on purpose.
The short distance between the two drivers give the best vertical dispersion you could hope for from a basic 2-way speaker. Single woofer/tweeter 2-way designs will always have nulls in their vertical off-axis response because the distance between you ears and the woofer/tweeter is changing at different rates as you move vertically off-axis. This makes the sound from the speakers out of phase with each other at certain frequencies (they will cancel each other out) where the drivers response overlaps. Keeping them close pushes that cancellation into higher frequencies, where the woofer has less output, which which minimises the effect. Coaxial designs are really the best as far as vertical response goes, but they come with their own issues. Brick wall crossover slopes can also avoid the effect, but the aren't really practical without DSP.
As an added bonus, the acoustic centers of the drivers are almost perfect because of the overlap. If you flush mounted both the woofer and tweeter the acoustic center would be shifted down a little... Just a little, it really wouldn't affect much.
Also, the large flange on this tweeter is actually a waveguide (shallow horn), improves efficiency (louder) and allows a lower crossover point... It really couldn't get much smaller. It is just plastic, so you could easily just notch the woofer into it. Just cut the tweeter recess, mount the tweeter, cover the tweeter in masking tape, and then cut the woofer recess.
droid monkey thanks! The speakers are actually designed to be overlapped, I had plenty of room but I followed the design of the kit. This was about a three day build for me, with the soldering portion taking about half a day.
@@craftedworkshop Oh, okay, that makes sense. Like I said, it's probably not a big deal, just my own OCD haha. But thank you for the reply. Three days doesn't seem too bad. I'm assuming most of it was letting the stain dry. I'll have to check out the kits that are available.
And wow, I did not expect the soldering would take so long! The video definitely made it seem far simpler, but you did mention you had to cut it down like crazy. I'll check out your blog to see more details.
Yea it was first time soldering so I’m sure someone with more experience would be able to do it faster.
Amazing..
Looks super awesome can’t Johnny. I love the heavy round over.
Mortgage & Mitre thanks!
Beautiful looking box, Johnny. Someday I'd like to build my own as well. This, and as you mentioned in the notes, Kirbymeetsaudio, have inspired me more to do so.
Question though - why stop sanding at 180 gritt? I haven't used walnut yet so am a little unfimilair (my main preference is arizona mesquite). In the mesquite, to get it to truly explode in color and texture, I take it to 600 gritt while raising the grain on every gritt. To recap, every gritt 2x, with raised grain in the middle. What a difference.
I'd love to hear your feedback. It's how we all grow, isn't it?
Again, beautiful box.
Phil Z thanks Phil! I’ve just found you get diminishing returns past 180 or 220 really. I’ll sand that high if epoxy is involved, or sometimes on turned pieces that are going to be buffed to a high gloss, but for a satin finish, I haven’t seen much of a difference. But hey, if you’re getting good results, sounds like your system is working! Mesquite is super hard I believe, so it’s different from Walnut in that way.
@@craftedworkshop , thanks for the reply, Johnny. That does make sense to me. And you are correct about the mesquite being much harder than walnut. With the method I stated, mesquite will actually become mirror-like reflective before finish. I do it regardless of gloss or satin. It just adds to it that much more (for mesquite anyway)
Thanks for your time.
I'm glad I found you through Alex's STS channel. Good stuff.
Thanks Phil!
I love a good speaker build! Is this something that you will do more of in the future?
Roman Dziennik definitely!