Water Bottle Ipod Speaker

A speaker made out of a mini water bottle for your ipod. Simple to do!

I came up with this Idea when I was fooling around....
I wanted to find a case for a speaker I had to use with my ipod and lol it fit into a cut water bottle.....what a coincidence

Oh and this is my first instructable

Step 1 Get a water bottle

I used a water bottle similar to the one in the pic because its easy to cut and stuff....

Take a big scissor thing and cut it right where the paper ends on the bottle near the cap so like this in the picture for some raeson I cant do image notes so maybe 3 inches down

Comments

[T_T_]

this great but it's REALLY quiet

[rumkugeln]

I tried it and didn`t work...
I think its not possible to power a speaker that big with the small power from the ipod...

[Rmg12]

Cool idea but i am unsure if it works and someone who actually used a bit of metric! although you did use inches. ps it is centimetre why does everyone insist on imperial I cant use it and it is not accurate!

[StarshipMcGee]

imperial is way more accurate than metric my friend. :D

[Rmg12]

er it isn't. Imperial is based on human proportions and inaccuracies. For example in the UK we mainly use metric but also use pints, and miles. However the UK pint is different to the usa pint. They differ in different places. Metric is standardised, and scientists use it, which is proof in itself. Metric is set on powers to the base of 10s. eg 1000mm in a m. 1000m in a km etc. in imperial, there are 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, and 1760 yards in a mile - why confuse things with different numbering systems. Whenever i use imperial i make mistakes. with metric you always know that it works in thousands or if you use cm in 100s

[StarshipMcGee]

what you discribed does not measure its accuracy it measures its usuabilty for common people. i dont dislike metric, in fact i live in canada and we use it all the time. i say km/h but i also say that im 150 lbs. but it is easier to say 1/2 inch or 3/32" than saying 0.079375 cm. Imperial is definitly not user friendly but at an engineering stand point is is easier to use. IMO.... sorry if i offended you in anyway. :D

[jamnoopers]

ya ya ya complain complain complain :P

[2fst4u]

metric makes sense bacause it is based on the human number system (10). imperial is based on generalisations and inacuraccies

100cm = 1 metre
1000m = 1 km

1 foot = 12 inches?
1 mile = 5279.98687664042 feet?

wtf?

[matchbook cards]

12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
1760 yards = 1 mile

you can't forget the yard, it ties it all together so nicely.

"My car gets 40 rods to the hogs head and that's the way I like it" Grandpa Simpson

[jamnoopers]

its not that its inaccurate. its Americans wanting to be different

[anickle060193]

We are just dumb because we feel that we're cooler than everyone and that we need our own system. Metric is so much better. The only reason we don't convert is because of money. It would take millions of dollars to change all of the street signs, car speedometers, and everything else in english measurements to metric.

[StarshipMcGee]

depending on how large your speaker is you may want to put a hole in the top of the water bottle so the speaker does not create a vacuum as is moves in and out.

[erikmc]

hm... be careful with that. an ipod is used to amplifying to headphones, most likely 32 ohms. not a speaker, around 8 ohms. you might blow out somthing. but you probably dont have to worry that much. great idea.

[anickle060193]

So could this hurt the iPod?

[J@50n]

i think it you'd be more likely to blow the speakers then the ipod itself

[jaredsalzano]

wouldnt it need a battery?

[goatgirly]

no because you plug it into the ipod

[goatgirly]

very cool

[Tool Using Animal]

alas my dear sipertofu, it is de rigeur to flame anyone who says " oh and btw this is my first instructable so no flaming " So you've fulfilled your own prophecy. I would say, don't throw away the ear buds, you can use one as a microphone on another project, or atleast strip the super magnets out of them.

[anickle060193]

Microphone?

[wishes]

I did something similar to this only i used a bike bottle and this way i was able to have some semi decent sounds whilst riding my bike. I put a speaker in the lid and a speaker in the bottom. Ipod sat inside and the entire thing was completely water proof. Of course i thought of making an instructable ... after i had completed it :( Good work though :)

[didibemi]

mine is with low sound. do you have any idea of how I can turn volume higger?

[Wasagi]

Where'd you get the speaker?

[phaserlaser]

i know you can get good quality one for a really cheap price at goldmine-elec-products.com

[didibemi]

pickup and old stuff and look for it!

[knoxarama]

i have headphones that use some weird conductive fabric so mine doesn't work

[Jedidiah]

This will work, but in order to make the speaker louder you'd have to amplify the signal. I only know this because I tried something very similar and found that even a larger speaker still produces a small sound. It's a good instructable, though, and a good idea.

[laxman735]

how do I tell which wire is + and which is -?

[Budd00]

Thats pretty cool.

[rus91]

y dont mine work? do u av to av a certain size speaker

[Snipertofu]

no sound? or what?

[Snipertofu]

Excuse my blurry picturs...i dont like meh camera n it dont like meh

[snownight]

lol

[i am me]

well done! (cheer) . . . lol

[rogers236]

i just made something similar to this. yours actually gave me the idea. except that i put the rest of the water bottle(minus the bottom) back on, this seemed to make it louder. and i put cotton balls behind the speaker, something to do with bass i think? thanks for the idea

[mashy]

tried this, and no sound came out whatsoever, it really needs an amp of some sort.

[Snipertofu]

coke cans scare me...they're sharp after you cut them +i dunt like coke...i like fruit punch or tose caprisun things

[Daykun]

I made two speakers out of PC-Beepers and Coke-Cans... and used them on my bicycle... Anyway, nice project.

[LasVegas]

There are three wires in your earbud wire; Two speaker wires and a common. The common line my be just the shield surrounding the other two. It's neither recommended to tie the two speaker wires together nor drive your speaker between the two. If you're connecting a single speaker, without additional components, connect just one of the speaker wires (+) and the common (-) to that speaker.

[Snipertofu]

Are yous ure you have the wires touching the speaker correclty? Cause I had some trouble with it at first. It should work with other mp3 players cause I tried it with a mini crap radio I got for free