Build Your Own Speakers

Popular Mechanics illustrates step-by-step how to build your own home speakers from start to finish. The author starts with a speaker kit that costs $369 for a pair, which sounds expensive until the author suggests that the results sound better than $500 speaker sets. (Okay, even after hearing that it still sounds expensive.) Overall it’s a pretty ambitious DIYproject. Luckily Popular Science details the entire thing with tons of helpful start-to-finish photos. If you’ve ever tackled a similar speaker project, let’s hear about it (including whether it was worth it) in the comments.
How to Build Your Own Speakers: Step-by-Step DIY Tech

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First off, sorry for the lack of posts, due to school, I will not be able to post a whole lot any more.
Anyways, to blackify any web page, you can use the following bookmarklet:
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I apologize for how old this is, I wrote it quite a while ago, and it has been sitting at the bottom of my drafts folder for a long time, I figured I should post it.
I have been looking forward to the release of [...]

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OK y’all, sorry for the long time with no posts.  My cousin died, so I was out of town for a while, and then what with school starting back up and everything, I just haven’t gotten around to writing anything.  I’ll start [...]

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It’s summer, it’s hot, and your big chore for the weekend is getting rid of the stump in your backyard? Instead of digging it out, give the stump a second life as an all-natural stump cooler. Design web site Apartment [...]

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Gmail launched in 2004 and has matured each year, but Microsoft Outlook (with Exchange) is still the most popular tool for accessing email. Comparing the two side by side, is it time to jump ship from either platform? Let’s find out.

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Sorry about the oldness of this post, it ws written a while ago and didn’t get published.
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Ever needed to hide some important files inconspicuously? All you need is compression software and an image.

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Just flew back in to town, I reckon posts will start back up this Friday.  Logged in today and saw 70 spam comments, logged into GReader and had 1,247 unread posts, so I’ll probably spend the next few hours reading those.

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I will be on vacation until early July, so don’t expect any new posts between now and then.

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