Soup Cans!

For the purposes of a pun, "cans" are another word for "headphones".

Here's how to make audio-cans from soup-cans, and some other things.

Step 1 Parts & Tools

I used:

Two large soup cans (Lidl chicken, vegetable & pasta - it's OK)
One Scotch Broth can (Lidl, better than OK)
Two small speakers (4 Ohm)
A wire coat-hanger
Electrical insulating tape
Various bits of wire
Expanded polystyrene foam
PVC tube
Most of the electrical content came out of an old phone I bought a while ago.

Screwdrivers
A knife blade
A drill
Fencing pliers
Pliers
Scissors
A soldering iron

Comments

[The Locksmith]

You look so awesomely hip in the first photo. <3

[lemonie]

Thanks, but I have since shed the hair...

L

[The Locksmith]

awww, did you at least keep the sunglasses?

[lemonie]

Yes, but I got a new pair.

L

[Leemister]

This is clever. But can the sound fill a HUGE room?

[lemonie]

No, just your head.

L

[Leemister]

Oh. Well I think I might try this out. I collect headphones and stuff so, this will make it be alot cooler. THANKS!

[power]

great cans! soundstage improved well :D

[Dr Qui]

Two large soup cans (Lidl chicken, vegetable & pasta - it's OK) LOL Agreed... Have yet to find a canned chicken product that was more than OK, chicken don't can well does it? LOL Andy.

[lemonie]

It's cheap nourishment and that's about all that can be said about it...

L

[MissBetsy]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
that is just to cool :)
I had to give it an extreme "funny" rating. I wonder if lining the cans with e.g. neoprene would make them sound less 'tinny' Love your project!

[Perkinator]

Is that you on the picture?
WOW.

[lemonie]

Yes.

L

[brian3140]

Haha sick... I was looking for an instructable with you in it, cuz i see you everywhere on the site, and yur lil icon guy clearly isn't you lol.... I needed a face to go with the name, "lemonie".
     Keep up the good work!

[lemonie]

I still look pretty much like that...

L

[possum888]

 Its scary 'cause you look a lot like my Dad!

[riverreaper]

thats funnie i didnt know of the can term or i might of done my idea difernt , i needed a way to record right an left an contained that i could have room noise not interfearing , i put a mikeheadset with the speakers detached from the headband an the mike inbetween them inside a 32oz espresso cup an muffling stuffing all around them the wire comes out the straw hole , guess i shoulda instru. it befor all that electrical tape went on lol

[lemonie]

I like the sound of that.

L

[butterflycookies]

i tried to use soda cans. bad idea

[lemonie]

They're not as stiff are they? L

[Clayton H.]

The first picture makes you look like les claypool.

[lemonie]

I wasn't trying, but you mean like this? L

[Clayton H.]

Yea or like the one at the top of his website.

[Punkguyta]

This is actually an interesting idea, I would try mounting woofers the size of the diameter of the soup cans inside the cans, thus creating some potentionally ear damaging cans.

[lemonie]

Yes, I have a pair of those, so I've got long-term plans for "Super Soup-Cans" L

[Punkguyta]

Make sure they have some kind of vents in the rear of them so they don't act like pressure chambers :-S Btw, did you get my Pm lemonie?

[lemonie]

Hi man, not yet I'm afraid... L

[Punkguyta]

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[lemonie]

If I had I would have replied by now. I'll PM you with a fix L

[Punkguyta]

I was gonna say, how bout you try pm'ing me, but apparently you already have, but It still says 0

[lemonie]

Bugger. No stuck... L

[Punkguyta]

I'll be irate if my pm's aren't working either

[lil jon168]

lol u look like a white snoopdog

[Punkguyta]

It's true, he kind of does, doesn't he?

[lemonie]

OK, thanks L

[butterflycookies]

these are pimp in defination!

[butterflycookies]

this is more pimp than the wookie gun

[DELETED_craz meanman]

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[isaac!]

tuna cans!

[albylovesscience]

hopefully this can doesn't find you