Laura´s Bluetooth Boombox 

I love your attitude about not getting mad and drink some coffee and do some problem solving. I probably would of smashed the thing when the wires broke. I will be thinking about this, the next time something doesn't go right. Thank you for your inspiration.

I am guessing a lot of old videos have been removed. Nobody pops up on RU-vid with such polished and well-put-together video stories without a lot of practice, surely! I do love seeing how much Laura has developed over the past seven years, I am looking forward to binging my way up to the Tiny House videos she is releasing at the moment.

Mounting that board using the cassette housing was sheer genius! Very, very nice...

Awesome! Another great project and video!! Really glad to see you working around issues that pop up on camera, that's SO encouraging to viewers!

im glad that you said dont get angry and just think out the problem. i do alot of diy stuff. unfortunately i live in a small 2 bedroom apartment and cant afford much. so everything i do is either with a small hand drill or my trusty jigsaw. i hope to get a small desktop drill press one day. its because i have so few tools to work with that i do get frustrated easy. but just to hear someone and see someone have something go wrong and keep cool about it will help me keep cool to. thank you.

I love your attitude when you ran into trouble Laura! I probably would've pulled up a schematic to find where on the circuit board the power should be connected but hey you rolled with it and came up with another plan, that is being an innovative thinker! Cool project.

+Laura Kampf Drilling into plastic and thin walled metal... You know the drill bit likes to jump through the last paper-thin wisp of material and screw through the unfinished hole. That's because the drill flute lifts the material as it cuts. It doesn't need to though, at least not right where the cutting is happening. With a small grinding wheel (one of those brown potato chip disks on a Dremel), grind or blunt the cutting edge of the bit so that when you are holding the drill bit vertical, you're holding the Dremel tool horizontal. You only need to remove enough material from the cutting edge to remove about a half mm of material. The bit will still be sharp, but it the leading edge of the flute will be scraping rather than lifting material. The equivalent effect for a circular saw blade would be to use a blade with a zero or negative tooth rake (recommended for cutting thin-walled material) instead of a standard positive tooth rake.

so cool! my grandfather (i'm a brazilian with a big german family) had a very similar telefunken boombox in his kitchen. also had an old wooden telefunken TV and speaker set.

Terrific looking video and great project Laura, can't wait for more.

Nice work! Easy tip for you, take clear photos of the boards before you start work. A broken wire can easily be traced with a pic. Also a volt meter would have found your 9V also.

I turned a vintage radio into a guitar amp in a similar way, only I had a switch going between guitar in and radio. The casette covering for the bluetooth receiver is really cool

I love watching makers like you because you show things that I never would have even considered as a possibility. Kudos! (PS, AvE sent me)

After some wires came loose in an electric guitar of mine years ago, I started taking pictures of electronic devices I open up, as a first step. It gives you a reference if anything goes wrong. Nice work with finding a new solution, though!

With an attitude like yours you deserve to go a long way. And for what it's worth I think you will. Brilliant.

Laura, I love your channel. Your projects are very inspiring. I'm a hobbyist woodworker from Australia. You have definitely motivated me to gain some skills in electronics and metal work. Thank you for all your great content. Also, love the record of the week. Thank you.

AvE sent me too, these ideas are classic lateral thinking brilliantly executed and presented

For the wire breaking... In the future just take pictures of the layout inside what you are working on. That way you have a 'backup' of how things go together just in case of problems. On the plus side...you now have a 12vdc direct-powered boombox :)

3:36 - that part made my day :)

So cool that you were able to rescue that old boom box. It still sounds great! Good video, Laura.

Your are awesome, the video is great, your intervention is so nice and genuine and I can't get enough of watching/seeing your stuff.

So Cool!!! Plain & simple.... So Cool!!! Greetings from South Jersey USA again!!!

Beautiful Telefunken cassette player!

Nice! Put some open cell foam behind the speakers as audio baffling inside the cabinet to make them sound a bit richer.

Well Girl what CAN'T you do? 👍🏻 I love your " don't get mad, just drink coffee!" Keep up the good work, you are an inspiration to all!

While I LOVE these audio projects... a Telefunken boombox in the United states can be flipped for at LEAST $500. Those things are gold here.

you operate on whole new level. inspiring.

This is such an original idea! Love those vintage 80's stuf!

there was no need to dispose of the old power supply, just needed to modify it a bit and you could use it again. But great job totally love the way it stayed mostly intact. 😀👍

Truly inspirational Laura! I am blown away...

Watching some of my old favorite Maker videos for some inspiration. Really love this one

Dude, your style is so palatable. I love it. I can't wait for another.

What a beautiful workshop. I love those drawers! You could make a video showing us all what's in there.

me encanta tu trabajo y tu manera de trabajar

Você trabalha muito bem,perfeita a oficina...ideias super criativas...muito bom ... You work really well, perfect the workshop ... super creative ideas ... very good

My kind of project! I am also messing around with some bluetooth capabilities for a project! Inspiring stuff! Thanks!

Laura your videos are awesome! Your channel is going to explode! I found you from making it podcast. Great work. Subbed. I've got a small but growing channel as well. Mostly woodworking and furniture building.

Laura that's such a good idea reusing a old cassette player for a blue tooth system,i really like the way you think,all the best

Like the advice.. ran into a setback when I accidentally "fried" the controller to my ebike with a 48 volt battery instead of the intended 36 volt. I made a modification to the battery with a high voltage "off" switch and had to buy a new controller and a spare ebike motor. Gonna test drive "version 2" tomorrow.

Nice build, I have the same Bluetooth board and they are great value for money. The retro stereo is cool.. thumbs up

Looking forward to watching all your videos

LAURA. GREAT BUILD !!!!!!!!

Awesome video work and project Laura! gooooood job :) Sometimes these failures on the way are a pain in the ass but usually they force you to come up with interesting ideas and solutions so I like when they happen!

I find the best music make for better work ,i listen to county ,old rock and 80`s music stevey nicks ,bob segar and the silver bullet band .now i am building a work table and storage for my tools .thank you for the idea on the table ,i put locking wheels on it ,thank you again

Omahgerd...I was interested in that old wooden tool chest. Beautiful.

Es asombroso lo que puede hacer, te felicito.

METRIC MIX. Sounds like a band o song o club awesome

Great upcycling, Laura!

Sehr cool! Bluetooth-Moped ist bestellt, altes Radio hab ich auch noch irgendwo rumfliegen ... die Tage wird gebastelt! Danke für die Inspiration - nicht nur diese :)

This is an amazing idea!!! I'm in love with your shop!!! I got two of those typography chest of drawers thing and I have a video coming about it!!! Keep it up Laura! :)

Great work! And 'telefunken' is the best name ever.

Ive thought about doing this by hard wiring one of those car audio to device transmitters . i just havnt gotten to it yet. you may have inspired me to go ahead and get that done.

Great job Laura!! I'm hooked!

Laura you're incredible!

Love it!! I've got 4 of those BT-cards! One in the car, one in my livingroom and two waiting for the right inspiration! It just came with your video! I'm so making this! Just have to find an old Electrolux radio (Swedish telefunken)!!

Awesome. Couldn't you have looked at the footage you recorded to find out where those wires were suppose to go?

Another wonderful video, Laura! Thank you for sharing your work with us.

You just brought back some memories from my childhood. Telefunken stereo was bad ass back in the 80`s and mid 90`s (at least in Romania along with Sanyo and some other rusians stereos) . TY. I will look up mine if it still exist some place in a dusty place and i will retrofit it with a raspi for an internet radio and MP3 player. TY for the inspiration. You just earned a +1 subscriber.

Lovely video. Looking forward to seeing a lot more. What is the cutting blade she uses for her angle grinder? It was in the walnut lamp video as well. It looks like it could be very handy.

Me.encantan tus trabajos.. perfectos..saludos..

nice job, i did the same with my boombox exept i kept the tape player but not functional (good remote holder !). It's less powerful cause running on 3.7V batteries with usb charge. And the blutooth module is also USB/SD MP3 and radio with uses the original antenna :)

Love it! great response to unexpected problems!

Great video Laura, nice updating of a cool boombox. Loved the soundtrack as well. Simply perfect! Cheers!

Great vid! Is it possible to solder a potmeter onto the board? It would be nice if the user could change the volume with the original potmeter of the old radio. (Maybe it's easier if I try to find one with a built in potmeter).

You do better soldering joint that a lot of electronics hobbyist, great job !

Anyone know the music used in this video? She normally lists it, but not this time, and I'm totally in love with this jam.

This is such an awesome idea

I'm trying to scoop out an old Skantic boombox that isn't working right. The speakers are fine, but the tape player and volume knob have seen better days. Turns out there's a circuit board covering the cassette deck, and a whole bunch of cables holding said circuit board more or less in place, so it's really hard to scoop the cassette deck out. I'm trying not to have to cut all the cables, but I might have to. It's a jungle in there.

why not just on a regular amplifier solder bluetooth receiver?

Ahhh awesome project! :) Still on my todo list to do list too, to convert an old radio into bluetooth speakers.

Wow! Mir ist gerade erst aufgefallen, dass du ja aus Köln kommst! Find ich cool eine "Makerin" in der Nähe zu haben:D Großartige Arbeit!

Another great video! Seriously good stuff. I liked the aside about the small mess up. Great solution. Look forward to more videos. Another great soundtrack.

I haven’t seen any wires or connections to Bluetooth board to control volume, play and other buttons. Does it mean you need to control it purely on the mobile phone? Thanks

Great video! So very good! I also like your coffee suggestion. Mmmm coffee.

Awesome video! Been wanting to turn the boom box I had as a kid into a Bluetooth receiver (it still works after 20 years!!) but I'm not tech or engineer savvy 😅

Telefunken is such a great name for a tv/radio company haha

Hi Laura, I want to ask you... what model is that circuit you are using? I'd like more info on that if you don't mind. Thanks, and great channel. Looking forward to watch more of your videos

Hate to see you having to work in the cold! Great shop though.

I just buy a $6 rechargeable Bluetooth receiver off Ebay and connect it to the Aux inputs on the boombox. Works fine.

Can anyone explain: 1.At 1:15 what is she holding? What does she cut off? 2. The switch she gets from her collection...does she connect it to the wires labeled "9V" and are these the same wires she's labeled "switch"? 3. Later in the video she connects purple wires to the switch. Where did these wires come from and what does she use them for? I'm going to attempt this and wish I had more of a step by step. All the editing makes it hard to tell what's what. Any help would be appreciated.

Great project and workaround, you've got great video style. Thanks for the video.

I have a question, is the radio and cassette deck still functioning on the box?

hey cooles Projekt aber warum hast du den anderen alten eletronik kram nicht auch rausgerissen ? zu viel arbeit der ganzen drehknöpfe wieder einzukleben ?

Def going to try this one out!

I love your videos! Awesome build!

I love this idea

awesome girl!!! great project!!

Hi, I don't get a thing, the seaker anda the bluetooth receiver, are powerd in series or parallel?

laura....u r beautiful and smart.....beauty with brain....i wish u for the best

Nice! You're quickly becoming one of my favorites. Watching from Minnesota.☺

Amazing videos! I'm so glad to find your channel through the Making it podcast. Keep them coming. I haven't moved to video I'm only on Instagram maybe some day.

I have a working cd am fm tape boombox but I want to just add Bluetooth so how do I do it by just adding Bluetooth?

cool music!!! love you work

Ich benutze das gleiche Telefunken Radio in meiner Küche, ich werd den auch mal aufrüsten, super idee!

I wish you would have spoken a step by step process. I have a large collection of boom boxes. But I don’t know what you did by watching this video

Thanks for the coffee advise

I really love this one, I happen to have one of those modules on its way to me and it's nice to know it fits inside a casette :P

thats pretty cool i want one now

Hi Laura. Great channel! New subscriber here. Really great work. I'm very impressed with the music you use for your videos - where do you get those tracks from? (Sorry if you've answered this already!)

Genia!!! saludos desde Argentina.

Came across your channel by accident, could something similar be done with a raspberry pi? Do know that latest version has bluetooth onboard.