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Easy Boombox

By Matthew T. Miller Illustrations by Julian Honoré

You will need

Earbuds

Paper cups

Pocketknife

Audio source

Velcro strip

Matthew T. Miller

Many earbuds can play at high volume without distortion. Use them to drive paper cups, and the sound is surprisingly good. I first put this together when I really needed to listen to some jams at work. Put the ghetto back into the blaster!

1. Prepare the cups.

Cut small Xs in the bottoms of 2 paper cups.

2. Insert the earbuds.

Carefully insert the earbuds into the Xs. They should ...

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