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Ten Years!

10 years old! In some ways, it’s hard to believe it’s been that long – time does that tricky thing as you get older and speeds up when you’d actually like to have more of it. And it seems that over the last half of those ten years it’s been accelerating at an ever faster rate. A…

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Making A Preamp For An Accelerometer

I made a wooden project box n my last entry and in this one I’ll build the preamp that goes in it. The preamp is for an accelerometer – the ACH-01 – that’s used to measure vibrations. Good and bad. The accelerometer is a small block of plastic with a sensor inside and you fasten…

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Woodworking Step By Step

I occasionally get comments on my videos that go like this: “I’m a pretty good woodworker, but that (project) is beyond my ability.” And while I understand where that comes from, mainly because I used to think the same way, that’s the wrong mindset to have. Everything that looks…

Designing The Console Speakers
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Designing The Console Speakers

Since the console project was primarily about the woodworking, I thought I’d write a short entry here covering how I designed the speaker cabinets. First, let me tell you about the drivers. They are fullrange (with a whizzer cone) high efficiency 7″ with a neodymium magnet and I…