How to make a speaker with your own hands?

We will analyze in this article everything connected in one way or another with the speakers: how to make your own home-made device (including a speaker column), how to increase their volume on a computer or headphones, how to make a podium for them.

DIY speaker: method one

Before you make the speakers yourself, prepare the necessary materials:

• paper;
• permanent magnet;
• aluminum tape or wire;
• stapler;
• scissors.

Making such a simple speaker is very easy:

1. Cut thin strips of aluminum tape.
2. Glue these pieces with a “snake” onto a square sheet of paper, without touching or crossing them anywhere. In the same way, the wire can also be glued with a spiral. You can attach it with pieces of ordinary tape.
3. Use a stapler to attach the sound device with aluminum strips or wires. Well, if the wires are exposed.
4. Hold the permanent magnet on the paper and turn on the sound on the device. Done!

Homemade speaker: method two

How to make a speaker in this case? Prepare:

• paper;
• copper wire;
• paraffin or rosin;
• a cylindrical magnet.

Instructions telling how to make a speaker:

1. Glue a low cone out of paper.
2. Make a paper tube - it should be slightly lower and wider than the magnet-cylinder. Glue this part to the base of the cone.
3. Insert a magnet into the handset.
4. Wrap a tube with a magnet with thin wire - the more turns there are, the better the sound will be.
5. Pour the wire with paraffin or rosin so that it sticks to the magnet paper.
6. Fix the position of the cone relative to the surface by gluing it with folded accordion strips of paper.
7. At this point, fasten the ends of the wire with a sound amplifier and enjoy the music.

How to make a speaker column?

If you want to get a high-quality speaker in the end, then you will need three speakers: high, medium and low frequency. The case for it needs to be made strictly rectangular. Let's consider its production in stages:

1. First of all, prepare the case - its basis can be chipboard, plywood, a board 10-12 mm thick.
2. Saw the front, back and side walls with a carpentry tool / saw / jigsaw. Do not forget to make three holes corresponding to the speakers in the front - at the top there will be high-frequency, in the middle - mid-frequency, and at the bottom - low-frequency.
3. For the best sound, install a rubber tab between the wall and speakers, and cover the case inside with felt.
4. Fasten the assembled case with superglue and self-tapping screws, leaving the back unattached.
5. At this point, bring wires to all three speakers and route the terminals to the outside of the back wall. Connect the speakers together in a parallel way.
6. After you have figured out the wiring, close the case with the back wall and fix it with the same screws and glue.
7. If your column turned out to be large, then you need to take care of inserting stiffeners - they will help to avoid unpleasant rattling of sounds. Additionally, rubber legs can be attached to the body.

How to make podiums for speakers?

In the instructions, we will consider how to make a podium with your own hand for absolutely any speaker and car:

1. Decide on the shape of the future podium - the design should not interfere with the power window handle and the car that closes the door. Draw a project on cardboard and cut a template on its outline.
2. Now you will need plywood with a thickness of 6-8 mm. Cut the two parts according to the pattern.
3. At this stage, you need to take up the platform for the speaker - the basis in the form of a ring. The diameter of the inner circle of the site should coincide with the inner diameter of the seat, and the diameter of its outer circumference with the diameter of the protective net of the speaker. To get an aesthetic appearance of the future podium, add 5-7 mm to the outer ring - this is necessary to install a decorative ring.
4. Also draw on the cardboard a template for the base and decor ring. Transfer the contours to plywood and saw out these parts.
5. Coat the decorative ring with glue and fix it on the base ring.
6. At this point, attach the ring to the main part. It is easiest to do this with the help of spacers that provide rigidity of fastening, because the speaker will be tilted and will protrude forward. Spacers are made of ordinary rails.
7. Now you need to set the form for the podium - the mounting foam will be the best assistant here, because with this material you can give your design any shape you want. In order not to spend the foam on the hole of the ring (from where you still have to cut it out), put there a suitable bottle, pipe, etc. Be careful - the level of dried foam should not be lower than the level of the ring.
8. Using a sharp clerical knife, give the dried foam surface the shape you want. After that, sand it properly with a large “skin”.
9. To make the surface perfectly smooth, prepare a mixture of PVA glue and putty, apply it in thin layers and leave to dry. Then process the product with “emery cloth”.
10. At this point, impregnate the product with a protective epoxy layer. Next - a layer of fiberglass, and then - all the same resin. Excess pieces after drying are also removed with sandpaper.
11. The last step is to fit the podium with artificial leather. Stretch the material from the ring to the edges, simultaneously cutting off the excess and fixing the skin with a stapler.

Increase speaker volume on computer

So, how to make the speaker louder on Windows:

1. Right click on the volume icon in the tray.
2. In the window that appears, select "Playback devices."
3. Next, select the desired speakers, right-click on them again, click on "Properties".
4. In the menu that appears, you will need the "Improvements" tab.
5. Check the "Equalizer" box.
6. Next, find the "Sound Effect Properties" section. Opposite the line "Settings" click on the button with three dots "..."
7. In the drop-down menu, raise all the sliders up, save the result.

If, as a result of this operation, the speakers began to “wheeze,” then return to the sliders and lower the first 2-3 to the previous level.

Increase speaker volume on smartphone

How to make the speaker louder on your gadget? Read life hack further:

1. Call the engineering menu of your smart. In most cases, full instructions on the official website of the device manufacturer tell about how to do this. The most common command: * # 9646633 #.
2. Next, you need to stop at the item "Audio" - select the kind of sound that does not suit you - "Loudspeaker", "Speaker for conversation", "Headphones".
3. Selecting any of the above three items, you will see the following items: "sound", "melody", "speech", "microphone", "keyboard tone".
4. By clicking on any of the items, you will notice seven volume values ​​- from 0 to 6. To make your speaker louder, you need to select "6".
5. The maximum value is 255. However, be careful when choosing a number more than 236 - this can lead to an early breakdown of the speaker.
6. Accept the changes, return to the menu and click on "Update".
7. Reboot your device - after this change should take effect.

You now know how to make a speaker yourself or increase its volume. Good luck and be careful in your experiments!