Tunes To Go!

Put some thrift store speakers on your helmet and blast some tunes!

Using earphones is bad because you can't hear anything around you

With some ext. speakers, you can still hear that Hybrid sneaking up on you! (most of the time)

This isn't an excuse for knowing whats going on around you while biking, or not having a rear-view mirror.

Step 1 Get The Materials

I was wandering through my local thrift store on a Saturday (not that it matters) and came across some speakers.

The speakers I'm working with in this Instructible are simple, non-amplifying speakers. They plug directly into a headphone jack and nothing else.

My speakers aren't very loud, that's why I'm putting them on the helmet and not the bike.

Make sure that the cord for the speakers is long enough to reach from your head to wherever you want to put the music player. If it isn't either readjust or hit a local radio-shack and get a small extension.

If you decide to use speakers that need to plug into an outlet, have fun and let me know how that turns out. (No, really)

I also used a helmet, iPod, plenty of hot glue, rubber bands, Popsicle sticks (Jumbo kind)
and oh, yeah, a bike.

Comments

[admin]

This is a great Instructable, but you need to add a main image of the final project to the intro step. Please do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work. Thanks!

[mattameo213]

Ok, I added a finished pic. I wanted to do some photoshop-ing. But had some computer problems.

[LoneStarWD]

Very creative.

[knibbles]

Sweet!!!!!!!! I will use mine for skateboarding. Thanks again.

[jonnybeats]

Nice idea but if anyone is thinking that it would be a good idea to cut a hole for the speakers STOP! That as you may have guessed will severely weaken the helmet even if they are tiny holes, the helmets are specially designed to be small but have a strong structure. Use your common sense and don't weaken the helmet! Have fun!

[floydfm]

Hey dude, Ihave a question, what is the impedance of your speakers? Thanks !

[mattameo213]

I don't know, I ripped them out of thrift store junk. I don't even know what impedance is. Sorry I can't help any more than that. I didn't do a lot of worrying about the compliance with my music player because the speakers came with a 3.5 mm headphone jack already attached.

[floydfm]

LoL, theres no problem dude, i've been in troubles makin' my own powerless speakers, i have an itouch and i wanna make those powerless speakers. well thanks anyway. see ya

[vov35]

they are 8 ohms as can be seen in one of the photos.

[vov35]

I've experimented with wall socket powered speakers. although they weren't mounted on my bike, the idea is the same. They have an internal power supply built around a transformer, four diodes, and a capacitor. I find it easiest to find the equivalant voltage of this power supply in batteries, and connect them in place of the transformer. it will work and be nicely amplified.

[vov35]

actually, this instructable inspired me to repair the power pack I was using and stick the amp along with a pair of car speakers onto my bike...

[j0nathan]

awsome like it lots gonna ask my ma if she threw out he old computer speakers