Mar 13 2021
I set the CNC table on fire Friday. It got really bad because our two fire extinguishers were empty. I ended up throwing water on the 9″ diameter burn. If the flame retardant stuff hadn’t worked, we could have lost the table.
I built the new Bike Party system (complete with the charred door …
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Nov 29 2020
Mike played around with the Bike Party system from 11-12-20 and shared the following thoughts.
From source to speakers
Head unit: All head units clip no matter the quality/price point. While this is annoying, once accepted as fact, it becomes easier to configure amplifier gains and expectations accordingly. Our particular Pioneer unit does not like …
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Nov 24 2020
Over the last week I have made lots and lots of edits to the design from tiny to rather large. And I have gone to two wonderful birthdays. One was for one of the youngest members of my family, Anzani Mlaudzi, and the other was for one of my dear mentors, Deborah Small.
Life …
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Nov 22 2020
This is all new to me. Here are a some links that have helped me understand battery technology a little.
1) Difference Between Lithium Ion And Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries
2) Batteries: Lithium-ion vs AGM
The concept of discharge capacity is new to me and something that I had not considered when designing this mobile …
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Nov 07 2020
We need three things:
1) An on/off button to cut power.
2) A battery monitor that will cut power when the battery declines to 12v or 50% (for lead-acid).
3) A plug to connect the battery recharger to the battery.
The new Bike Party system contains:
(1) JBL Stage 1210 12″ woofer
(2) …
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Nov 05 2020
Also, 68 million citizens voted to uphold White Supremacy and kill as many people as possible from covid. We are doing what Germany did before WWII.
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Oct 30 2020
Still making a bunch of adjustments but… this Bike Party speaker is going to come in around 70lbs. Heavy Weight Sounds.
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Oct 26 2020
Adding another coat of Duratex to four more cabinets. Life is very very good right now.
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Oct 16 2020
So we are hard at working creating a new speaker for Bike Party events. We are modeling it around the EcoXGear EcoBoulder which we have a number of and love. The main issues with the EcoBoulder are that it is not Open Source and the bass is lacking. We are not called Little Bass Heads …
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Aug 18 2020
We are working on a new design that is currently called the Bicycle Thumper.
The idea comes from a number of people in our crew and most actively from Robin and Torben. The design requirements are:
1) Battery powered 2) Mobile 3) Sonically pure 4) Multiple paired boxes
It must play for a minimum of …
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