A call to invention: DIY speaker edition - William Gurstelle

Transcriber: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar

翻译人员: Anthony Qian 校对人员: Jiawei Ni

There has never been a time

历史上从来没有这样一个时代，

to make things as good as right now.

能让 DIY 者如此如鱼得水。

Between what's available on the Internet,

身处在互联网的百宝箱中，

like the stuff on YouTube,

比如 YouTube 上的东西，

the stuff on Instructables,

比如 Instructables 上的东西，

MAKE Magazine,

以及 MAKE 杂志上的内容，

between the quality of your teachers

身处老师们

who know so much

的智慧中

and the incredible availability of parts,

并处于一个部件、

and tools,

工具、

and supplies,

供给极大丰富的时代，

there's almost nothing that you can't make,

我们几乎可以做任何东西，

almost nothing you can't make,

对，几乎任何东西，

if you really try.

只要你真的去尝试。

Now in my career, I've made a lot of stuff.

在我的职业生涯中，我已制作了许多东西。

I've made telescopes,

我做了望远镜，

I've made microscopes,

我做了显微镜，

I know people who made electron microscopes.

我知道制作电子显微镜的人。

I personally made flamethrowers.

我自己做了一个烟火喷射器。

I made a four-story high trebuchet.

我做了一个四层高的投石机。

Um, I've made some really dangerous stuff.

我做了一些的确很危险的东西。

My favorite is I made a battlebot

我的最爱是一个我做的战斗机器人

when battlebots were kind of big.

当战斗机器人体积还有点大的时候。

You know, it was metal,

您知道，它是金属做的，

it had 20 horsepower motors,

它有20马力的电动机，

it had a carbon-tip fireman cut-off saw in the front.

前面有一个尖端为碳制的带有切割锯的消防员。

That thing could, you know,

那个东西可以

eat its way out of a steel room.

从钢制密室里“吃”出一条逃脱的路。

I've made just so many things.

我已经制作那么多东西。

But not everything you have to make

但是，并不是所有的制作一定要

is dangerous to be cool.

危险才显得酷。

The point is, is that it's just fun to make stuff

我的意思是，制作是很有趣的，

and if you've got a really good idea,

假如你有一个特别出色的想法，

you could probably do it.

你很可能可以把它制作出来。

Now, there are different styles of making things.

当前，有如下几种制作物品的风格。

There's Do It Yourself and that's like,

DIY（自己动手做）风格，这就像

"Well, I'm going to fix the brakes on my car

“好，我现在要去修理我车的刹车

or put siding on my house,"

或者为我的房子装壁板，”

and that's an interesting kind of DIY.

这就是有趣的 DIY 实例。

But there's hacking,

还有一种，重组，

where you take one item that's purposed for something else

就是把一件用于其他事的东西，

and turn it into something, you know, cooler,

摇身一变，使它变得很酷，

something different.

和之前截然不同。

There's bricolage,

还有一种，拼贴，

which means making things from found objects.

就是从已经发现的物品中制作新的事物。

There's kitting, which means you buy a kit,

下一个是 组装 意味着你买了一套部件，

something complicated, probably, and put it together.

也许十分复杂，你将他们组装好。

And there's inventing,

最后一种， 发明，

and inventing is the best!

发明是最棒！

The best kind of making things involves

制作事物最棒的方式

not just following directions from people

不仅是单纯地循规蹈矩，

who have done things before,

在有经验的人的指导下做，

but actually going out there,

而是真切地付诸实践，

figuring out how to make something,

寻找制作的方法，

doing the design yourself,

自己独立完成设计，

and then actually building it.

最后完美完成这个杰作。

Now, I don't have a lot of time,

现在，由于时间紧迫，

but I want to get you started

但我还是想让你们入门

on your own invention project, maybe.

也许可以着手自己的发明项目。

So what I'm going to do live and real-time

所以我开始现场实时制作。

and something that scares me, is,

最让我害怕的是：

because it is live and real-time,

这是现场实时的，

is I'm going to make an audio speaker

而且是要做一个扬声器，

out of stuff that I found in my kitchen

从厨房杂物中汲取素材，

on the night before I came to New York.

这些厨房杂物是我来纽约的前一晚找到的。

Okay.

好的。

So what I've got here is a block of wood.

我拿到了一块木头。

I've got some sand paper.

还有一些砂纸。

I've got some pieces of notebook paper

我拿到了几页笔记本纸

folded up into a rough "Z" shape.

折叠成一个近似的“Z”字形。

I've got two magnets.

我拿到了两块磁铁。

And, I've got some wire.

并且，还有一些线缆。

Now, this wire is the key part.

现在，线缆是关键部分。

The four things that I need to make my own speaker is

制作自己的扬声器的四件东西是

a diaphragm,

一个振动膜，

a coil,

一个线圈，

a support,

一个支持物，

and a magnet.

以及一块磁铁。

So first thing's first.

让我们先从第一件东西开始。

Let's start doing it.

现在动手吧。

What I need to do is wind a coil.

我们先来绕线圈。

And what I'm going to do is take this wire

然后，

and wind an entire voice coil from it.

将一整根音圈和线缆相互缠绕。

Now, unfortunately that's going to take a really long time,

不幸的是，这要花很多的时间，

and I don't have much time,

而我正缺时间，

so I'm just going to give you the flavor of it.

所以我打算帮你省时间。

I'm going to take 30 gauge magnet wire

要用30标准厚度的磁铁线

and I'm just going to wrap it tightly together,

将它们紧密地包裹在一起，

and I'm going to do about 150 turns

加以150次的扭转

on a 3/4 inch wooden dowel.

在一个3/4 英寸木质的暗榫上。

Now why would I do that?

那么，我为什么要做这个？

Because I want to get my coil to have about 4 ohms of resistance.

因为我想让我的线圈拥有对4欧姆的抵抗能力。

If you don't have enough resistance,

如果没有足够的抵抗能力，

you can do something bad to your amplifier.

会对放大器造成伤害。

And then once that's done,

接着，一旦这个步骤完成了，

I'm going to glue it all together so it's nice and tight.

我们就要用胶水将它们粘起来，使它们紧固。

Now I don't nearly have 150 coils there

然而这里我没有将近150个线圈，

so I made one in advance

所以我事先做了一个，

and I'm going to use that one.

以便在这里使用。

So where is it? Here it is.

它在哪里？它在这里。

What I'm going to do is simply hot glue it

接着，我就要用热胶粘合

to the back of this yogurt cup.

在这个酸奶杯的底部。

And I had to eat a lot of yogurt while I was experimenting,

在实验期间，我不得不喝许多酸奶，

so I feel like I've got all the calcium I need for a while.

我感觉我获得了所需的钙。

Now, the next thing I'm going to do

接下来，

is take these magnets and glue it in the center of this dot.

将磁铁胶在这个点的中心位置。

Hot glue, by the way,

顺带一提，一定是用热胶，

a hot glue gun, it's the greatest maker toy you can possibly have.

热胶枪，是你的良伴。

I don't care what the 3-D prototype guys say,

我不管3D打印的朋友们如何讲，

I love my hot glue gun!

我就是喜欢我的热胶枪！

What I'm going to do next

接下来

is take these little "Z" stand-offs, see?

取出这些 Z 字形支座，看到它们了吗？

And I'm going to put some glue there.

这里放置一些胶水。

Look how fast that bonds!

看它们粘合得多块！

My god, this is great stuff!

我的天，这真是伟大的东西！

And I'm going to do that,

我接下来要做这个，

and then I'm going to glue this.

然后将它们胶在一起。

And I'm going to center that coil right over those magnets

然后，将线圈放置在磁铁的正中位置

so it's just above it.

让它位于磁铁的上方。

And now it's done.

现在就完成了。

Now this needs to dry.

现在，我们要等胶水变干。

So you know how Martha Stewart would take the cake

所以，你知道玛莎·斯图尔特（美食节目主持人） 是怎样将蛋糕

out of the oven, it's pre-made?

拿出烤箱的吗？它是事先做好的？

We're going to do that,

我们接下来就要这么做，

we're going to go to the Martha Stewart one.

跟随玛莎·斯图尔特的脚步。

So this is the one I made earlier today.

所以，这个是我今天早些时候做好的。

And it's the yogurt cup,

这个就是酸奶杯，

the stand-offs,

支座，

and everything else.

还有其他一切东西。

Well, I'm going to turn on my iPod.

好，现在我准备打开我的 iPod。

We'll see if we get some music.

来获取一些音乐。

I need a microphone.

我需要一个麦克风。

Hello? It's on, good deal.

喂？麦克风打开了，不错。

So, let's play something.

好的，让我们播放一些音乐。

[Music plays.]

[音乐播放]

Now this is really coming from a yogurt cup

这声音的确是来自一个酸奶杯，

and it's kind of a neat deal.

真的很不错。

Might not be your choice of music.

这音乐也许不是你的菜。

Now you can experiment with different things.

现在，你可以用其他不同的事物来进行实验。

In fact, I did.

事实上，我已经做过了。

Last night I did this.

昨晚我做了这个。

Let me walk over here.

让我走到这里。

I made all these different speakers

我制作了这些不同的扬声器

out of different things.

取材于这些不同的事物。

Here's one.

Because I'm in New York,

这就是一个。

因为我在纽约，

I made one out of a piece of matzo.

我用了一块无酵饼做了这个。

I made one out of a coffee cup lid.

我用了一个咖啡杯的盖子做了这个。

I made one out of a Tostito.

我用 Tostitos（墨西哥玉米薄饼）做了这个。

The Tostito looks like a speaker, doesn't it?

Tostitos 看起来很像一个扬声器，不是吗？

So, you can imagine how good that works.

所以，你可以想象用它来充当扬声器 效果会多么好。

And then last night during rehearsals

昨晚在排练的时候

they gave us some food,

他们给了我一些事物，

and they gave us these thick potato chips.

给了我这些厚薯片。

You've got to hear this, you guys.

你们一定要听听这个发出的声音。

This is just incredible how nice that sounds.

这声音简直了。

[Music plays.]

[音乐播放]

It's just incredible.

这声音无与伦比啊！

So anyway, like I said,

无论如何，就如我说的那样，

today is the very best time,

今天是个好日子，

this age is the very best time

这个时代是最好的时代，

to be a maker.

对于一位制作者来说。

You can make so many things

你可以制作那么多事物，

if you put your mind to it.

只要你用心去做。

Get out there,

拒绝循规蹈矩，

pick something up

重拾生活中的点滴

because, I'll tell you,

the stuff you make,

因为，我告诉过你，

你制作的东西，

the stuff you make is way better

你制作的东西远比

than the stuff you buy.

你购买的东西好。

It's special,

它是特殊的，

it's significant to you,

于你而言有着独特的意义，

and I really encourage you to do that.

我真的鼓励你去这么做。

Thanks a lot for listening to me.

谢谢聆听。