A new company called Pikip has developed speakers, a mobile DJ booth, amps, and more festival audio equipment all powered by solar energy.
The solar-powered kit uses photovoltaic cells on the roof of the rig to support two CDJs, two turntables, a mixer, an amp, and speakers for an outdoor crowd of 1,500 people for ten hours.
Traditional speakers do require too much energy to be powered by solar energy alone, but the Pikip brand uses horn speakers, which use less energy than previously thought needed.
Horn speakers use a specially shaped diaphragm that doesn’t have to oscillate as much…
