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For years I imagined that my old, broken boom boxes I had laying around could be
used as an amplifier somehow for my halloween animatronics who were begging
quietly for a bigger voice. But just how, I really didn't know. So for the
2003 year
Haunt X VII
sent out the challenge for someone to prove to us how to come up with a
"universal" hack that would turn a cassette player, radio or CD player
boombox into a stand alone amplifier that could be used to amplify up the weak
signal you typically find coming out of little digital sound recorder playback
devices such as the
Mimic Machine I have
referred to numerous times or the headphone-out of a portable CD player. The challenge sadly was not met and in 2004
the call went out again for
the same challenge, only this time a bright young man named
Bryan Patterson
stepped up and said he had a way that worked on both radios as well as players,
such as CDs. Once he delivered the goods at the free seminars at
Haunt X VIII and proved his hack would work, he became our Grand Prize winner
of the show and was inducted as our first member into the
How-To
Hall Of Pain.
In his own words, here's
how he did it. |
