How BoomBrix works
Song stored as digital data (numbers)
Radio waves carry packets across the room
Packets reassembled; numbers become an electrical signal (DAC)
Weak signal becomes a strong signal
Electrical signal becomes back-and-forth motion
Motion becomes pressure waves in the air
The sound wave travels
Motion becomes nerve signals, then music
Your song starts out as numbers on your phone. Bluetooth sends the numbers across the room as invisible radio messages. Inside BoomBrix, a little computer turns the numbers back into electricity, and the battery gives it the push it needs. The electricity makes a coil into a magnet that jumps back and forth. The coil pulls a stiff cone with it. The cone wiggles the air. The wiggling air reaches your ears, and your brain says: music! And the bumps on the brick hold it all tightly onto whatever you built.
Put the whole signal path in order
Drag all eight parts into the order a song follows from your phone to your brain.
- 1. EARS + BRAIN
- 2. AIR
- 3. CONE
- 4. COIL + MAGNET
- 5. AMPLIFIER
- 6. CIRCUIT BOARD
- 7. BLUETOOTH
- 8. PHONE
Explain how a song on your phone becomes sound from BoomBrix. Your answer stays on this device.
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Hear it for yourself.
Everything you just learned happens inside BoomBrix, the speaker that snaps onto your builds.