Housing

The housing of the Rundfunker consists of medium density fibreboard (MDF). It was designed, built and varnished all by ourselves. Only the exclusive aluminium front panel we designed was crafted by a company based in Berlin.

Tools used for fitting the first parts of Rundfunker's housing

Almost done, but still very empty ;)

The grille protecting the loudspeakers (the clearance was mill cut and afterwards covered by a second MDF panel)

Covered loudspeaker grille and marks prepared for jigsawing the front panel

Our jigsaw in action

Varnishing the housings was definitely not our favourite job - we had to do it about a thousand times to get satisfactory results!

Everything in its right place ;)

The finished housing holding all components

Audio Components

Our Rundfunker has an integrated amplifier providing 18 watts of power to the built in 2-way Pioneer speaker system.

A small circuit board combines the two stereo channels and supplies power to the amplifier

Project Management

Every step of design and development was coordinated with help of a ticket system (Trac) and documented in an integrated Wiki - all managed by the versioning system Subversion. All sources, circuit diagrams and other documents we created during development phase are accessible to everybody on our project's server. If you are interested in viewing more pictures you can take a look here.