Alright, so I've had this idea for quite sometime and I wanted to get your opinion on feasibility and practicality.
The basics is that i'd like to build a structure about 2 feet by 2 feet, a cube, and load it with speakers and car batteries. A sound cube.
The reason behind wanting something like this, is I frequently do camping trips with a large number of people. Now someone usually brings a small crappy boombox, or ipod speaker setup that they blast until its full on distorting and sounds like schmidt. I would like to upgrade this component of camp party fun by a lot.
So my thought was to build something that would be semi rugged (build the structure using pvc piping and milk crate mesh to protect the contents) and contain some decent outdoor speakers that could really get a party bumpin. I could put a maybe one or two 8" woofers into the bottom, a couple of outdoor speakers fixed above that, put in an amp to power both, and fuel it all with one or two car batteries. And maybe a small tacklebox with a lock that would contain the input cable for the amp, so u could lock up an mp3 player, or protect from the weather.
The goal in this is to create something using mostly used/craigslist components, build it myself (I have experience with fiberglass), do it for under $500, and have something that last 8-10hrs on a full charge, and makes people say, "holy damn! That thing sounds good, let's have a dance party!"
Is what I'm describing even close to being a possibility? I tried googling for something like this, but I found nothing. I'm totally ok with building something custom, infact, I would prefer it. Let me know what you guys think of this idea! Thanks!
The basics is that i'd like to build a structure about 2 feet by 2 feet, a cube, and load it with speakers and car batteries. A sound cube.
The reason behind wanting something like this, is I frequently do camping trips with a large number of people. Now someone usually brings a small crappy boombox, or ipod speaker setup that they blast until its full on distorting and sounds like schmidt. I would like to upgrade this component of camp party fun by a lot.
So my thought was to build something that would be semi rugged (build the structure using pvc piping and milk crate mesh to protect the contents) and contain some decent outdoor speakers that could really get a party bumpin. I could put a maybe one or two 8" woofers into the bottom, a couple of outdoor speakers fixed above that, put in an amp to power both, and fuel it all with one or two car batteries. And maybe a small tacklebox with a lock that would contain the input cable for the amp, so u could lock up an mp3 player, or protect from the weather.
The goal in this is to create something using mostly used/craigslist components, build it myself (I have experience with fiberglass), do it for under $500, and have something that last 8-10hrs on a full charge, and makes people say, "holy damn! That thing sounds good, let's have a dance party!"
Is what I'm describing even close to being a possibility? I tried googling for something like this, but I found nothing. I'm totally ok with building something custom, infact, I would prefer it. Let me know what you guys think of this idea! Thanks!
( ok i didn't read his post lol )
