Play-Yan Verstärker

What do you do when you're totally fascinated by your Game Boy micro and the Play-Yan, and you also have old computer boxes sitting around?

Correct!

You build an amplifier for the Play-Yan! not...

First I thought about how the part should look like.

I thought that it should be as narrow as possible, you should be able to put it against a wall or on a windowsill.

Since I'm a fan of symmetry, I wanted to have the boxes on the right and left, the Game Boy in the middle, and the buttons above it.

So I took the boxes apart, cut the cables to size and soldered them back on as I needed them.

Then I cut out the front and glued in a small bracket for the power amp, because capacitors and resistors on both sides prevented me from screwing it directly onto the front panel.

The amplifier should be a bit slanted later on, so that you can still read the display when standing in front of it. Accordingly, I sawed out the side panels, as well as bottoms and glued them on.

So that I have more surface for gluing and thus more stability in the whole, I first glued the magic material of woodworking (sticks from New Year's Eve rockets) to the walls.

That looked then in such a way:

Now the good micro only needed a nice seat in the middle of the amplifier.

For this I put the play-yan into the micro and then traced everything up to the top with a pencil.

I cut this shape out of thick wood, drilled a hole for the jack plug and sanded the whole thing down.

Finally finished!

What you can't see here is that I glued some foam rubber behind the GameBoy holder, so that the device doesn't get scratched and that I sprayed the whole thing with clear varnish, so that the pictures painted with fineliner don't smudge.