This speaker set is made from a regular pair of earbuds and a paper coffee cup. This is inspired by these cup speakers that made some noise in late 2008. I always thought that they were a cool design and playful and wanted to try it out to see if it was effective.
To be fair, the original creator admitted it wouldn't be when he said, "The increase in volume, of coarse, is radiculous, but hey, you get stylish iPod accessory out of nothing!"
Still, I figured why not try it out and just see hear what happens. I have an old pair of earbuds that I can try it out with and a couple coffee cups that were just hanging out on my desk waiting to get recycled anyway.
To be fair, the original creator admitted it wouldn't be when he said, "The increase in volume, of coarse, is radiculous, but hey, you get stylish iPod accessory out of nothing!"
Still, I figured why not try it out and just see hear what happens. I have an old pair of earbuds that I can try it out with and a couple coffee cups that were just hanging out on my desk waiting to get recycled anyway.
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Signing UpStep 1: Cut a hole
This step is easy enough.
- Draw a dot in the center of the bottom of the cup
- Use that as a guide for placing your earbud against it
- Trace the shape of the earbud
- Cut out a slightly smaller shape
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in fact one of my friends did this with his "hit clips" (www.warpbreach.com/8/hitclips.gif for those that dont know what they are)
the idea is not very original and its more of a "poor mans" solution if any thing else. saying this is your idea is like saying you invented how to shoot a rubber band off your finger.
hopefully this does not come off as rude or mean. i'm just trying to clarify that credit for this is imposable to give and MAKE did not come up with the idea.
Not sure why it matters since the whole point of this Instructable is that there's no point to doing it. Who cares who came up with the bad idea first?
And as long as you cited the place you got it from, you're fine.
Wouldn't this be copying?
Go nuts. Unless you copied each picture and bit of text without adding anything at all I really don't care. I care more that you'd hold back from doing something because of this.
This is a wonderful experiment for kids to learn about sound and magnetism simultaneously. Very cool.