Fahim
@fahim305 · Founder, eShopportunity
Very interesting! What was your inspiration behind this?
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Maxwell Nelson
@maxwell_nelson · CMO
@fahim305 probably this
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jake duncan ☕️
@jkdncn · two-way dual-language bilingual educator
@maxwell_nelson @fahim305 I was just here to say how this reminded me of the VW van version. 🚐🎶
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Logan Riley
@loganknowitall · Founder, Pink Donut
@jkdncn @maxwell_nelson @fahim305 Funny enough I thought I had invented something entirely new and unique when I began.
When I started on my prototype for RokBlok (then called ‘Orbit’) there were all sorts of things wrong with it. I showed a friend of mine what I was working on and he said “Oh yeah…that’s just like the soundwagon”…I didn't believe that something like this had been made before, so he pulled up a video just like this one. I was so upset to learn that someone had the same idea I had…25 years before I was born!
After getting over myself, I actually found one of these vw soundwagons on ebay, for like $200. It didn’t work, but I broke it apart and ended up learning why my original prototype had so many issues…and also why the soundwagon had so many issues.
So RokBlok was made as a combination of what I learned from my original prototype and what I learned from the soundwagon. To address the horrible sound from both, I implemented bluetooth to solve for the doppler effect as it rides around. To solve for the destruction of vinyl when in use, (they used to call the soundwagon ‘Vinyl Killers’), I developed a way to keep the needle from tearing up your favorite records.
Definitely safe to say RokBlok would have never worked if I didn’t learn about the soundwagon!
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Logan Riley
@loganknowitall · Founder, Pink Donut
@fahim305 Thanks Fahim! Honestly I love vinyl. My love of physical records and my desire to share my favorite records with my friends was the biggest reason I built RokBlok.
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Logan Riley
@loganknowitall · Founder, Pink Donut
@fahim305 …also, maybe I was trying to impress a hipster girl? :)
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