Over at rejon.org, made a post about the Laoban Speaker Workshop on Saturday, September 12, 2009 and Overlap Salon Melbourne on Tuesday, September 15, 2009! At both events will be talking about Fabricatorz projects and the Laoban Soundsystem Matt Hope and I have built in Beijing.

Head over and check out the details of the latest Laoban project.

Also, Laoban Soundsystem will be a part of Vision Forum Shenzhen and Vision Beijing in October, so stay tuned!

Matt and Lujia are down in Guangzhou checking out the progress of Laoban. The project is almost complete. It really just needs the final sponsors to come through, get the lovely chinese broken ice grills, then it will be on a shipment up to Beijing!

The following image is a bit big, but shows the size of half of the stack. Note, there are two columns to the Laoban 2.0. We can of course make more on-demand.

Remember the original plans.

You can see that the images above are only half of the full stack, and that stack doesn't have the grillz on the front of the case.

This project in distance fabrication has gone quite well. All the sponsors I think will be quite happy, especially once we start doing events with the Laoban. New sponsors and event promoters please do contact us.

We are seeking sponsorships for the Laoban Soundsystem 2.0 being built in Guangzhou, China right now. It is to be used all summer in China for events. It is a custom engineered Chinese sound system, a research project, and a vehicle to connect sponsors with a large web-based and live audience connected to music, art, media, china, and web culture. Every time the system is used will be a media event, generating massive traffic and attention to the project and sponsors.

We are seeking sponsors in Da (large, $1000), Zhong (medium, $500), and Xiao (small, $250) increments to our goal of $8,000 to build this complete sound system in time for summer.

Da Sponsor (large, $1000)

• Logo/Image + web link to website


• Will receive pair Xiaoban Small DJ/Desktop Speakers from first production run of limited edition 88 speakers


• Announced in all press as a sponsor


• Invited to Special Events

Zhong Sponsor (medium, $500)

• Logo/Image + web link to website


• Announced in all press as a sponsor


• Invited to Special Events

Xiao Sponsor (small, $250)

• Logo/Image + web link to website on sponsors page


• Announced in group announcement

To start off this sponsorship push, Kude Labs and Fabricatorz have both sponsored the initial monies to begin fabrication on the Laoban Sound System. More than just sponsoring the development of the soundsystem, by contributing to the project, you will increase your connection to China media, art, culture and youth, as well as page views to the world's largest population of Internet users.

Contact us to be a sponsor and lets get this built!

About Laoban Soundsystems

Laoban Soundsystem is an open sound system. The plans for all speakers are available on-line under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. The events the soundsystem participates in are media events that generate further viral media. Anyone who attends the events, creates the speakers through the plans, or produces content for them is encouraged to tag media they make with laoban.

The Laoban Soundsystem events are a new type of media event where all are welcome to join, bring media, laptops, video players, cameras, and other recording devices. The goal is to mix media, explore what artists, DJs, musicians, designers, and architects are working on RIGHT NOW — successes, failures, and rough edges are welcome at Laoban events! The ultimate plan is for consumers to be producers by both mixing media, and by tagging any recordings they have with "laoban" when posting onto twitter.com, flickr.com, or other places.

laoban "xiaoban" samples


Originally uploaded by rejon

Matt and Lujia worked it out to get us some samples of our desktop xiaoban speakers (http://fabricatorz.com/laoban). Our next step is to tweak them, produce more and then sell them. If you are interested in these, please contact us and we'll add you to the announcement list.