[ Photo of beirut sunset by Joi ]

Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t forget to eat some pumpkin pie and tell everyone around you how thankful you are for them!

With that being said, thank you to you for supporting Fabricatorz! Thanks to all who have contributed to our projects and working with us. Also, thanks to all our friends and family members!

Xiaoban Desktop Monitors

Originally uploaded by rejon. Matt and I made these for Michael Yuen’s Donkey Institute of Contemporary Art. They will be available for pre-order quite soon.

Keeping the lights on and working hard on several projects. One is happening at the end of the month in Shenzhen, so get ready!

[ Laoban Hat by Jon Phillips ]

We try to keep the light on by having a global live 24 hour chat on the Fabricatorz chat channel. Please join us the simple way, or the more advanced way. Join in and let’s talk projects and possibilities. Also, we can talk about the new Laoban Soundsystem hats straight off the press! (there’s an inside joke to this).

It went quite well. The F is recharged! Fair enough, as they say in melbourne.

Here is how the 10 Xiaoban Speaker drivers arrived on Monday:

I added a couple to some found IKEA boxes and calculated the volumes, and made some small little truncated cone boxes which had some oomph.

Images forthcoming on the Laoban hybrids. In addition to productizing the laoban speakers, I’m most interested in hosting/running Laoban Speaker Workshops wherever to use found objects and xiaoban small drivers to make custom boxes. Its a lot of fun, inexpensive and rewarding. Lets do it again!

Until the images of the Xiaoban IKEA hybrids, take a look at my post at rejon.org and Overlap.org.

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!