Know Your Brick
How does a brick make music?
Follow a song from your phone, through every part inside BoomBrix, and all the way to your ears.
Start Lesson 1Choose your level:
7 short lessons
Each one follows the song one step further. Start at Lesson 1, or jump to any part.
- Lesson 01Sound starts with a wiggleEvery sound in the world starts the same way. Something wiggles back and forth, very fast. Put your hand on your throat and hum. Feel it?Start lesson
- Lesson 02A speaker makes the air wiggleA BoomBrix speaker cannot sing. All it does is wiggle — thousands of times every second — in exactly the pattern the music tells it to.Start lesson
- Lesson 03Music is sound with a planEvery sound is a wiggle. Music is wiggles put in order on purpose — high and low, loud and quiet, fast and slow.Start lesson
- Lesson 04Bluetooth sends invisible messagesYour phone does not send sound to BoomBrix. It sends instructions — invisible radio messages that tell BoomBrix exactly how to wiggle.Start lesson
- Lesson 05The battery holds the energyWiggling a cone and catching radio messages both take energy. BoomBrix carries its own energy inside a battery you can refill.Start lesson
- Lesson 06The outside has a job tooThe inside of BoomBrix makes the music. The outside has to hold on tight to your build — and still come off when you want to build something new.Start lesson
- Lesson 07Big sound, small earsSound is energy, and your ears are delicate. Loud music for a long time can hurt them — and ears do not heal like a scraped knee.Start lesson
- Wrap-upHow BoomBrix worksPut the whole signal path together, test yourself, and explain it in your own words.Go to the wrap-up
Hear it for yourself.
Everything you just learned happens inside BoomBrix, the speaker that snaps onto your builds.