The TapeScape Audio Robot

Step 8: Pump Up the Volume

Next we had to get the TapeScape sound out to the world. The first idea was to take the speaker from the boombox and mount it on the robot itself, but once we tried this it was very very quiet. A decent compromise was to go and purchase a small FM transmitter like you'd use to listen to your ipod in the car. This did the trick and was simple as it fit the 1/8th inch stereo output of the preamp.

Except now this was getting a bit unwieldy, so we whipped up this little rear dash for the audio controls out of a tape casing and a zip tie.