Slidebeye Radio- Penney

This is Penney. She is part of the Slidebeye radio family. She is sleek, made of cardboard and wood. A no frills kinda gal. If she’s not your cuppa tea that’s quite all right, there is a whole family, Dave, Robert, Levi and Patricia. All you have to do is look into the grill design and the slidebeyes can see whom your meant to be with. What kind of objects you see decides what radio you should get. Simple.
The way the Slidebeye radios are designed is something to phone home about. The lid slides smoothly to the left to revel the spin dial controls safely hidden inside. You can close it again and have the music playing like your own personal music box. Penney is perfect for those who want to have things their own way as you can draw on her all you like with pens and pencils. You can be the designer. When you have decided its time to go your separate ways Penney is made of cardboard so no need to feel guilty, just recycle her. Slidebeye radios are unique, quirky and for the individual.
Slidebeye Radio- lets turn it up.

Step 1 Materials

So you have decided you would like to make a Slidebeye Radio. Here is what you will need.

Materials

• Wood block - min of 40mm x 40 mm x 100mm
• 2mm single flute cardboard -2x A2 sheets
• Dowel -8 mm di- 40mm
• Ball bearing -15mm di (outside) 8 mm di (inside)
• Old radio (one you don’t mind destroying) – circuitry (excluding batteries) must be within 80mmx20mmx62mm or Sony ICF-S22
• 1 mm ply wood- A4 sheet
• Double sided tape
• Solder
• Multi core electrical wires
• Battery case
• Cutting template
• Fabric – 150 mm square
*Super glue
*Hot glue

Tools

• Laser cutter (optional)
• Electrical sander
• Hack Saw
• Glue
• Scalpel
• Adobe illustrator
• Drill press
• Angled vice
• Soldering iron
• Hand drill
• Patience
• Band Saw
*Hot glue Gun
*Pencil

The first thing to do is to make a plan figure out how you are going to get all your materials and when you can access machinery. I found the ball bearing at a bike shop and I got my wood from scraps in the workshop at Uni.