Gadgetory

there are a lot of portable boom boxes out there but I guarantee you the best sounding one is the one you make yourself I'm gonna show you how to make your own self-contained boom box that's unlike anything you could go out and buy now let's go over the parts you're gonna need for this first up you're gonna need the X mini happy speaker this is a critical item and it's probably the most expensive item in this whole thing around sixteen seventeen bucks has a built-in speaker and a built-in mp3 player it's called the world's smallest boombox we're gonna make it bigger next you're gonna need is a basic craft box this is gonna hold everything together and the speaker the mp3 player everything's gonna go in here this is gonna be your boom box it also gonna want a four own speaker probably overkill bigger than we need but why not it's a boom box now for the rest of the stuff you're gonna want a momentary switch some odds and ends some bolts some solder some wire some tools we're gonna cover that when we get to it for now let's open the X Mini up and see what's under the hood alright here is the speaker itself we're gonna actually take this speaker off we're gonna replace this speaker with our big one this is the guts this is the brains of the whole boombox here we've got an mp3 player that reads off of this SD card we've got a little control here for play pause and power and then we've got a recharging port on the side here and a little battery this is all we need to make our boom box creation alright so here is our in car replacement speaker eight bucks a steal this thing can handle 50 watts I think our mp3 player spits out about two watts of sound we're gonna put the speaker facedown on our box safety first we're all drilled out we have a few more holes to drill one's gonna be on the side and that's gonna be for our power play pause button the others gonna be on the back and that's going to be for our charging cable for our next step we're going to mount the speaker in the hole and then we're going to solder the connections from the back of the speaker to the X mini you should have read on positive black on negative and you got it and I go red wire red wire here on the X Mini and black wires going to go where that green wire is connected to the negative all right it's time to flip it back over and wire up our momentary switch to these two little contact pads that will control play/pause and power I should do it let's hot glue the circuit board into the box all right now you can temporarily seal it up a little dab of glue so there you go now you've got your own self-contained rechargeable mini boom box you can just load it up with your favorite tunes you can give it as a gift or just save it for yourself all in all the whole thing cost me just about sixty dollars there you go rock out