This week I worked on making speakers using mylar and copper tape.
The speakers have a very simple design because while working with this new roll of copper tape I noticed the copper tape was very thin and flimsy compared to my previous roll of copper tape.
I made three speakers using conductive thread. I tested the first one I made to make sure it would work, but didn’t test the other two. These speakers ended up being pretty small because the conductive thread kept getting tangled and ripping apart.
I want to make speakers for two people to hear the music so I decided to create a cylinder shape speaker with plastic sheets and tied them with plastic loops. In the three swatches, I also want to experiment the lengths of the speakers whether there is a difference in sound or not.
To check if there is a short circuit I tested with a light bulb and a battery, and it worked, so hopefully, it will be a working speaker when we test in class.
I decided to do speakers using Jake’s face. I put copper tape on his tongue, a piece of fabric and cut out his face. Yet I had no big magnets so I did not test it, hopefully it will work.
Since Jake always doesn’t have black eye balls, I cut out his eyes so that eyeballs can be drew on a paper underneath and being moved around.
For this week’s speakers, I wanted to try embroidery with conductive yarn.
I traced a coil pattern on the fabric and then back-stiched the yarn in.
For this assignment i worked on connectors for rapid prototyping.
For this week I created 3 speaker swatches out of basswood and copper tape. I drilled a hole in the wood for the copper tape to go through because scotch tape doesn’t attach to wood that well.
For my connectors I made two alligator clips and one with a safety pin. The second alligator clip one is constructed much better then the first, however they both work perfectly well!
This week I did connectors from different material in order to create current between the samples with the LED and the batteries.
Material:
Dock Tape
Copper tape
Clips
Nails
Aligator clips
Copper Wire
Conductive String
1+3 connectors:
