Senior Project

[FordaTaurusRex 10+ year member]

Hey guys, I have to do a senior project in order to graduate college.

One idea I had was to build a rotary subwoofer. I have to do some more research on them, but they seem pretty cool and would probably make a good senior project.

What do you guys think? Any ideas/comments?

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[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

I did my one in high school on car stereo competitions, it was an easy A, probably not nowhere near in depth for college tho

 

[TIeclipseMOJO 10+ year member]

i have senior design project next semester. you an engineer too?

 

[FordaTaurusRex 10+ year member]

It honestly doesn't have to be that in depth. I've seen some pretty stupid projects.

What do you guys think might be a cool project for a mechanical engineering major?

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Hey guys, I have to do a senior project in order to graduate college.
One idea I had was to build a rotary subwoofer. I have to do some more research on them, but they seem pretty cool and would probably make a good senior project.

What do you guys think? Any ideas/comments?

I think it'd make a hell of a project. I'd definitely check out DIYAudio, I remember some posts a while back about big servo-controlled things, but I'm sure someone there knows more about rotaries.

 

[dumple 5,000+ posts]

build some kick *** beer retrieving robotic thingamajig with some funkypups

 

[FordaTaurusRex 10+ year member]

I thought about building one from scratch. I'm not exactly sure how they're built, I'll have to look more into it.

If I could say I built my own subwoofers, I'd be a happy man.

EDIT: maybe reverse engineer the Fi SSD's I'm getting with a triple stack motor or something.

 

[tyler_fitz 10+ year member]

you could accidentally the whole fleshlight

 

[bball09124 10+ year member]

I thought about building one from scratch. I'm not exactly sure how they're built, I'll have to look more into it.
If I could say I built my own subwoofers, I'd be a happy man.

EDIT: maybe reverse engineer the Fi SSD's I'm getting with a triple stack motor or something.

Mechanical Engineering? Nice, I'm thinking about majoring in this as well. What school are you at?

You might want to check out the Phoenix Gold cyclone, that is one of the few rotary subs that were ever sold I believe.

 

[FordaTaurusRex 10+ year member]

Wentworth in Boston. Hard as hell but I love it.

 

[FordaTaurusRex 10+ year member]

Maybe you could build the magnet out of a few coils of that flexible magnet stuff?
I really have no Idea if that would work just an idea.

Thats a pretty good idea. Or I could build the voice coil itself outa that flexible magnet stuff. Could possibly handle more power?

 

[FordaTaurusRex 10+ year member]

You're right on that one. I'm just throwing ideas around at this point. I still have some time to decide on what I want to do.

Designing a subwoofer that could handle some serious RMS power, like 4000+, would be cool. Especially if I could do it using some unconventional designs.

 

[Tiiimay 10+ year member]

WENTWORTH SUCKS BALLS. i would think that would be far more electromechanical if anything. if not electrical. do it tho. i'll buy one.

 

[RedlineAccord 10+ year member]

you could accidentally the whole fleshlight

The whole thing? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wow.gif.23d729408e9177caa2a0ed6a2ba6588e.gif

 

[Banana Balls 5,000+ posts]

I built a computer for my senior project. That was back when the P1 was a screaming fast CPU and a basic home build costed $5,000.