Pictures of Phonieboxes for inspiration 2020/2021

[MiczFlor]

Hi Phonieboxers,

please add your designs of finished Phonieboxes in this thread. Also, I am collecting designs for the new calendar 2021 coming out shortly before Christmas. You can see the 2020 calendar here and the 2019 calendar here.

Use this new thread that I started for sharing pictures and designs, because the old thread was wonderfully picture rich which is why it became very heavy to load. So we start a fresh thread end of 2019 and into 2020. You can find the old thread of Phoniebox designs for inspiration here.

[andrebsch]

@dermarzel My Case is custom made. Its made from 18 mm plywood and the middle layer is a 27 mm beech wood. The back panel is made with a 6 mm plywood and for the Front I used a 12 mm plywood. I made a pattern and then I used a router with a bottom trimming cutter to make the other layers, After this all layers where glued together and sanded until the surface was smooth.

The Housing for the Display is made with a 3d Printer as well as the Knob for the Volume control.

For the carrying strap I drilled a slotted hole on each side and fixed the belt from the inside with 2 screws to the housing.

AS speakers I used Visaton FR7 but FR 10 will fit as well.

At the moment I'm working on my second box and the housing is made in the same style but with a CNC machine, so sanding at the end will not take so long :-)

[mduesi]

@fatalerror1981: Very nice case! Do you have your own 3D printer or did you use an online printing service?

[Diablo-Rojo]

Now it is my turn to send a big, big "thank you" to @MiczFlor !!!

Some background: As a father of three boys I got in touch with the original Toniebox in Nov 19. Although the overall idea is nice, the total costs for three kids would add up soon (not counting the plastic waste bye each new tonie). So I was looking for an alternative solution and came here. As I have literally no technical background I had to spend some evenings reading and watching YT-videos in order to find my personal setup.

My project: I came to the conclusion that I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. So, no buttons, no powerbank, everything managed bye RFID. Even the cases should follow the idea of upcycling in order to avoid any unnecessary waste. So I choose the following parts:

• RaspPi 3b
• Neuftech RFID Reader EM4100
• SanDisk Ultra microSDXC 128 GB
• Trust Leto 2.0 USB Lautsprecher
• Aukru 5V 3A Micro USB Netzteil mit Schalter (incl transparent case & coolers)

During the past weeks I build four boxes in total as each kid got his own and we wanted an additional one in our living room. And here are the results:

Box No 1 - living room:

Box No 2 - kid 8yo:

Box No 3 - kid 6yo:

Box No 4 - kid 3yo:

As the parts are the same in each box the interior is also the same in each box. Just as an example the interior of box no 3:

All boxes shut off after 30 min of inactivity; therefore all boxes have power adapters that include a switch so that they can start the boxes on their own. As the boxes are ment to be stationary there were no power banks used. Everything works very smooth & stable (apart from issue #747 ). All RFID cards have been painted bye the kids on their own.

I couldn´t be any happier. So, once again: Thank you @MiczFlor for this beautiful project (hearts)

[splitti]

@Diablo-Rojo really nice and good examples for simple and clean Boxes! Thanks for sharing!!!

[stefantruehl]

Thank you very much @MiczFlor . Me an my daughter strongly appreciate the project!!!

Further, also thanks to @splitti for the blog post and the LED Control script

[GMZ87]

Nicht immer einfach, aber das Ergebnis ist um so besser geworden.

Mein Sohn hat am 10.02. Geburtstag und soll die Box bekommen. Er hat sie auch schon des öfteren gesehen und auch den Stoff selbst ausgesucht. Nur ist er bis dato im glauben das die Box für einen anderen Jungen ist ;) Kinder sind was tolles xD

Ich habe die Version ebenfalls mit einer Powerbank gebaut. Diese aber komplett zerlegt und auch die Akkuanzeige in das Gehäuse integriert. Dies fand ich durchaus wichtig, um auch einem Kind deutlich machen zu können wann der Akku alle ist.

Das System läuft auf einem Raspi 2 mit Hifiberry MiniAmp und On/Off Switch wie in der Beschreibung. Nach anfänglichen Installationsproblemen läuft nun alles einwandfrei.

Was ich etwas anders gemacht habe, waren die Tasten. Normale Arcadetasten finde ich derart hässlich und sie würden auch nicht zur Optik der Box passen. Deswegen Touch Sensoren unter einer Gravierten 4mm Acrylglasscheibe für die Bedienung und nur für das ein und Ausschalten einen Taster auf der Rückseite.

Das Gehäuse selbst besteht aus 4mm Nussholzfunier. Dies wurde im Laser geschnitten. War für uns die einfachste Lösung, da wir son teil zu Haus haben für Frauchens Firma.

Alles in Allem ein sehr sehr schönes Projekt!

[ZyanKLee]

Wow, schick. Die herausgereichte Akkuanzeige ist tatsächlich eine gute Idee. "Ist der Akku leer" ist eine häufige Sorge bei unseren Boxen - meistens unbegründet.

[nikolaus-online]

Let me begin by telling you, that we adore this project and really love our Phoniebox. I assembled it in December, it was a gift for my two boys. They use the box constantly since then.

Parts used:

• Raspberry Pi 3B
• RAVPower Powerbank 22000mAh
• Larcele Buttons
• Trust Leto 2.0 USB Speakers
• KKmoon IC Cardreader 14443A

The case is just a plastic-container from our local supermarket meant for food. My wife sewed a housing out of felt. Its closed with two big strips of fastener. Its fugly, I know that. But it works like charm. :)

A thing I like very much is the implementation of MQTT. I added the box to my openHAB-Setup and can now monitor the usage and change volume etc. straight out of my Smarthome-Menue. I totally recommend looking into that, you can do amazing stuff with it. Two examples I realized with Phoniebox and MQTT:

• When I drive home after work, the box announces "Dad is on his way home", when the box is switched on.
• My boys have one card they use, when they want to play "circus". It starts circus-themed music on the box, but also crowd-cheering on the smart speaker in their room and it changes the light to a colorful theme. (Hue Lights)

One thing I would love to have is a lock-function (Reader and GPIOs) via MQTT. That would be nice.

I also cast the tracks that are played to my Awtrix-LED-Controller.

I designed all the cards with a simple Photoshop-Template I created. So my kids can see whether its a audiobook or music etc.

[andreasbrett]

One thing I would love to have is a lock-function (Reader and GPIOs) via MQTT. That would be nice.

You mean lock the buttons and reader? That's already possible. You can start and stop the rfid and gpio services. Send "start" or "stop" to the following mqtt topics.

• phoniebox/cmd/rfid
• phoniebox/cmd/gpio

Love your circus lights solution as well as the daddy's coming home notification. Cool ideas!

[andreasbrett]

@nikolaus-online That usage statistics display in your openhab basic ui looks great! It's grafana based, right? How did you implement the time selection below? Curious as I too use grafana for displaying statistics but never found a way to dynamically change the displayed time frame.

[nikolaus-online]

@andreasbrett

• phoniebox/cmd/rfid
• phoniebox/cmd/gpio

Thank you! That was exactly what I wanted! ^^ It works perfectly. I don't know why I haven't seen it in the documentary. That's very nice to keep the peace between my two boys.

Love your circus lights solution as well as the daddy's coming home notification. Cool ideas!

Thanks! 👍 My kids love it!

Curious as I too use grafana for displaying statistics but never found a way to dynamically change the displayed time frame.

It's a pretty ugly solution, but it works. I cast the graphic as a "Image" Item, the link contains the timeframe. So i figured, i could just place five links with "visibility=[]" and one dedicated Scale-Item (Number) that is changed via Switches.

Sitemap: Image refresh=30000 url="#####&from=now-24h&to=now" visibility=[PhonieboxStatsSkala==1] Image refresh=30000 url="#####&from=now-12h&to=now" visibility=[PhonieboxStatsSkala==2] Image refresh=30000 url="#####&from=now-6h&to=now" visibility=[PhonieboxStatsSkala==3]

##### = URL to Shared Grafana-Graph.

And for the Switch: Switch item=PhonieboxStatsSkala icon="time" mappings=[1="24h",2="12h", 3="6h"]

PhonieboxStatsSkala is a simple Number-Item.

Like I said: It's not the most elegant solution, but it works! ^^

[andreasbrett]

Like I said: It's not the most elegant solution, but it works! ^^

I like it, it gets the job done!

[splitti]

The second Box is finished, i named it Pawbox (Pupsbox seems to be the wrong name in Germany)! There is a ne animation style, both boxes get a brandnew Raspberry Pi 4 1GB and were installed with the spotify Version. The boot time to start audiobooks takes 14 - 17 seconds. Both boxes will be synced by RFID Card.

[camCut]

@splitti nice Bootanimation + nice highlight behind the dogs on the back! Huge improvement on the layout compared to the 3 Fragezeichen box!

[Piehti]

Not sure if it counts... Its more a "PhonieBoard". Cheers!

[Prutsium]

Damn Splitti,

You made it very nice again. Like how you did the Powerbank LED's with fiber :)

I am rebuilding our 1.0 as the box (wood) got broken and planning to implement the WS2811/2 LED's with an ESP8266 running Wled. Would be the quickest and most easy way to implement WS21811/2 into the Phoniebox (They would just show some nice color loop or color based on playing status and last but not least they would be used as progress counter)

Btw where did you get that great frame for the Oled? Did you print it yourself? and if so willing to produce / sell them?

Best regards, Jerome

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The second Box is finished, i named it Pawbox (Pupsbox seems to be the wrong name in Germany)! There is a ne animation style, both boxes get a brandnew Raspberry Pi 4 1GB and were installed with the spotify Version. The boot time to start audiobooks takes 14 - 17 seconds. Both boxes will be synced by RFID Card.

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[Prutsium]

So after my little one damager her 1.0 box i rebuild it to the 1.1 version :) It still runs the Classic version (2.0b) as my previous experience with the Spotify version was long loading time where i have now about 15 seconds boot time.

As this became the 1.1 version i added a few things as you see in the pictures. The ESP8266 that you see runs WLED and my plan is to use it over the API with the Phoniebox so it plays some colors when playing, nightlight when idle but also show some progress. (Still figuring out how to do that :)) The leds on the backside are controlled by the ESP (WS2812's)

Anyway still love this project and as of today we got also rid of the real Toniebox.

[davidfri]

Didn't see, that here is a new place to report the builds. So I post our setup also here:

Here is our setup. Printed on Ender3pro with rainbow-filament (that was my first productivity print).

Hardware: 1x Raspberry PI zero W 5x Buttons 1x Slider (Volume control) 1x adc1115 (analog to i2c) 1x HD44780 (see: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID/wiki/LED_displays_HD44780-i2c) 1x Hifiberry MiniAMP 2x small speakers 1x big speaker (at the bottom) ... lots of small stuff

David

[d03n3rfr1tz3]

Hey everyone, we proudly present you our version of the phoniebox. We had much fun building it and we hope our daughter will also love it, when she gets it in a few days.

We also used the recording feature, because when I was a kid myself I had much fun with such a thing and maybe our daughter will also do. The other stuff is straight forward as most of you have done. I have some more details and a shopping list (beware obvious ref links 😉) on my (german) website.

Hardware: 1x Raspberry Pi B+ 1x 10000mAh Mini-Powerbank and 1x magnetic usb cable 1x Neuftech RFID Reader 1x Trust Leto 2.0 Speaker and 1x AUKEY noice filter 1x usb microphone 6x 30mm arcade buttons and 1x 16mm power button 1x ky-040 rotary encoder 2x irf520 mosfet driver module (to control the 5V power of the LEDs with the 3,3V GPIO) 1x 10000µF capacitor (to fix the powerbank reset) and 1x 33µ inductance (to fix the powerbank shorting recognition) 1x wooden box, 1x grass mat, 1x groot action figure, some fairy garden things and some color

Only thing I want to point out is the powerbank problem we had and solved. We used a different powerbank then most of you because of its small size, but it had the problem with the Pi resetting when connecting the powerbank to power. There was an article in the c't about that and also some of you already used it, by adding a capacitor and an inductance. The problem was, that it worked flawless on the breadboard, but did not work after soldering or even plugging it freely with wires. The powerbank than thought its shorted and did not power the pi (which the inductance tries to fix). The reason we figured out after a lot of hours was, that the breadboard (and some connections) do have a small resistance and the soldering (my second time) + the wires were too "good" (i'm kidding, it wasn't good) so that it had low resistance. We added 2Ω of resistance, which solved the problem completly.

We thank all of you for the inspiration and even some help in those github issues and guides you have done, because there was a lot that helped. 😊

[manajoe]

@GMZ87 Darf ich fragen, wie du diese RFID-Karten "bedruckst"? Sind das vorgefertige Etiketten zum Aufkleben oder Folien? Finde die Optik absolute Spitze! Schöne Grüße Manajoe

[Viatorus]

My Phoniebox, an easter gift for our daughter.

[chrissicool]

This Phoniebox is an Easter gift for my kid. A pirate treasure chest.

Details:

• 1x 24x21x18cm treasure chest project box.
• 1x EasyAcc 20000mAh powerbank.
• 1x Raspberry Pi 4B, 2GB RAM (undervolted and clocked down so there is no need for a cooling fan).
• 1x GPIO extension board. Makes life a lot easier.
• 1x OnOff Shim, soldered onto the extension board.
• 1x HifiBerry Miniamp.
• 2x Visaton FRS5 speakers.
• 1x RC522 RFID reader, connected via SPI.
• 5x 12mm colored momentary push buttons.
• 1x 12mm momentary push button with green LED glow ring as power button, connected to OnOff shim.
• 1x 22mm Micro-USB connector as external power connector on the backside.
• A bunch of wires, and other small stuff.

[RiekeIcke]

Hello, once again! I just finished my third Phoniebox (number two still in progress since May 2019 ;-)). It’s for a friend’s son and works with the current beta software. I also updated my first Phoniebox and the software makes no problems. I only don’t know, if it should show up covers in the Webapp‘s folder list or if it changed and the cover only should show up for the currently playing folder. However, here‘s my result.

Box is a Fire station from Kaufland, fits perfectly. I used a RPi 3 B and Logitech S-150 with builtin soundcard. Neuftech Reader and some buttons and a LED. Thanks for inspiration and once again for the great software and all the updates in the past years! Thank you so much!

Marieke

[manajoe]

I built my first Phoniebox for my daughter when she was 2 years old, that was in 2018. Mainly inspired by this project here (thanks a lot to MiczFlor for his work!!!), and the WheezyBox I had found here (https://daddydoes.de/wheezybox-alternative-toniebox/), that was my first box:

In this version 1.0 I used the following components: RPi 3B+ with 32GB Sandisk SDHC Card Neuftech RFID Card Reader AUKEY Powerbank 20000mAh Trust USB Speakers CSL USB Soundcard with Ground Loop Isolator Arcade-Buttons Wooden box by Bauhaus ;-) YKRUD2 for Powering off

The box worked fine in general and my daughter loves it from the first day on! But I didn’t like some disadvantages of my construction: The AUKEY powerbank isn’t capable of „PassThrough“, so if it’s out of power, we had to recharge and could not continue listening meanwhile. Additionally, it has a button that had to be pressed, if the Pi had been turned off completely, so I constructed that „physical“ wooden extension  I had not implemented a way to see the „charging status“ of the powerbank, so the box turned off quite unexpectedly. YKRUD2 has also one problem: it only completely cuts power from the Pi, if you power off by pressing the button. If you use the Idle Timer, the Pi is shut down, but power is not cut off.

So although my son is not yet 1 ½ years old, I needed to build an own box for him, he always loved listening with his sister and tried swiping the cards by himself ;-). Meanwhile I had read a lot on Splitti’s blog (http://splittscheid.de/selfmade-phoniebox/) and picked up some new ideas (especially the display and the powerbank including the fiber optic cable for battery status). Thanks so much for your detailed instructions.

So I finally came up with this second box in version 2.0, I kept the "classic" optic from my first box:

I wanted to eliminate some weaknesses of version 1.0, so I changed some of the parts: RPi 3B+ with 32GB Sandisk SDHC Card GPIO Expansion Board AZDelivery OLED-Display 1,3 Zoll Neuftech RFID Card Reader EasyAcc Powerbank 20000mAh Trust USB Speakers CSL USB Soundcard with Ground Loop Isolator Arcade-Buttons Fiber Optic Cables 1mm Wooden box by Bauhaus ;-) OnOffShim for Powering off

The new powerbank is capable of PassThrough, I had the chance to use the fiber optic cables to have a charging status and OnOffShim cuts the power, no matter how the Pi is shut down. As we don’t listen to any podcasts nor have a spotify account, I installed the Classic version on Raspian Buster, I have disabled WiFi from the beginning, until now I only need (wired) network for adding new sound files and assigning card IDs, what I usually do when the kids are sleeping ;-). And to not giving my daughter any reason to be jealous, I updated her box to version 1.1, by cloning the SDHC-card from the second box and also building in the new components.

Eventually, I would like to thank everybody being involved in this project and the other pages I had read since 2018. My kids really love their boxes, my wife and I don’t have to restart any CDs or loop songs, they can do it all by themselves. I enjoy following your project, finding ideas, thinking about how to implement changes to my boxes and also doing the handicrafts. Just a perfect fit!

[Piehti]

NiNiBoX - The minimalistic version

Pure Rfid, since the user is 1 year old and does not need no buttons. She already learned to controll it by cards. I wanted to eliminate as much anything as I could. So theres only a charging port at the outside.

Her Arsenal:

Rightnow Im Prototyping PaPaBoX with Display and Subwoofer.

[BerniPi]

Elephon

We have finished our Elephon, 20x10x10cm in size. My wife designed the box.

The ear of the baby-elephant is the power-button. His cheek is the power-LED.

RasPi 3B USB-Soundcard with Speedlink TWOXO Speakers Neuftech USB RFID Reader (with Hardware Mod) Ansmann 10800 mAh Powerbank SHIM OnOff from Pomoroni

[chrstn-hsbrg]

My first box for my kids. This is such a beautiful project that I tell all my friends about it. It is a very nice introduction to the world of raspberry and electronics. Thanks for this brilliant open source project.

[pfedan]

Between my last post and now, the phoniebox got some upgrades:

• Better covers for the speakers
• Rope handles
• An OLED-Display (many credits to @splitti and his companion project https://github.com/splitti/oled_phoniebox)
• A special card that tells the time of day in German: "Es ist zwei Uhr siebenunddreißig nachmittags." (using an NTP updated time and pre-made MP3s for each minute of the day - Google's TTS API was very helpful here.)

Still, a Hifiberry is powering the speakers that I took out of the Trust Leto 2.0 set.

Here it comes:

[mcintyre321]

Used a DIY USB Arcade Controller Kit for the buttons, so solder free, phew!

[camCut]

Used a DIY USB Arcade Controller Kit for the buttons, so solder free, phew!

Poor robot, must have seen horrible things :'(

[mcintyre321]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xZ_KQhv8T8

[topas-rec]

My sons Phoniebox in an old tea box: Interior (Three chambers for more stability - the walls were already in the box - most of them were removed): Interface:

[manajoe]

After finishing/updating the two boxes for my kids I wanted to build one for me and my wife for the dining room, to replace our FM radio. I disassembled the old “Grundig RF420” radio my grandma used to have in her kitchen.

This time I used the following parts: RPi 3B+ with 32GB Sandisk SDHC Card GPIO Expansion Board AZDelivery OLED-Display 1,3“ Neuftech RFID Card Reader EasyAcc Powerbank 20000mAh Visaton F 8SC Speakers HiFiBerry MiniAmp 5x Microswitch 2x AZDelivery KY-040 Rotary Encoder Fiber Optic Cables 1mm OnOffShim for Powering off

I wanted to keep the original optic of the Grundig, but I couldn’t use the built-in radio scale, because it was printed on transparent plexiglass. As I wanted to integrate the display quite invisible and I didn’t dare to drill or saw into the plexiglass, I ended up drawing the scale in GIMP and then print it with a black background. But as the outer transparent plastic cover is tinted, one almost can’t see the difference to the original :-)

I physically glued the old external rotary knob to the KY-040 so volume and track adjustment can be done the old school way. I created a radio stream with multiple URLs in the livestream.txt, so I can scroll through the channels with the knob, the radio stream also starts playing at startup. The other buttons also work, a button press mechanically activates the microswitches on the inside to power on, pause or activate radio manually. With splittis sync script https://github.com/splitti/phoniebox_rsync I can now manage all RFID shortcuts on my NAS and then update all three boxes to use the same RFID cards.

One more time, thanks so much to everybody in this project, I had so much fun building this box and giving my grandma’s old radio a new life. Everyone builds an original!

[martin2345]

Thanks for this great project!

[voetzi]

Here is my sons box...

[andrebsch]

My second box with a CNC machined housing.

[hoeby13]

My first box. And my daughter love it. Thanks for your work.

[Luegengladiator]

After the first installations 2 years ago, the box ran in a Siemens Super H53, but never in a way that would have been suitable for children. After a long break I have now started a complete new building that had to fit into a round corner shelf in the children's room. Features: 4x LED (Power, Playing, Info, Warning) 4x GPIO Button hit-event prev / next, replay, pause holdevent volup / -down, replay list, shutdowntimer 11x card slots for favorites 1x playback slot (stop on remove)

can be seen here in a test installation. Ultimately, the box was hung under the shelf to make room:

[frittenfred]

Hello,

some pictures of my first box:

[RiekeIcke]

In April I finished my 3rd Box. I worked on it for about one year. But finally I am very happy with the result. My son, too ;-)

First, the RFID reader was at the top of the box but this didn‘t work for him. Then, I set the antenna around the buttons and this was much more better.

[larsboth]

With my Phoniebox's design I'm applying for the least-effort-award. I've just used the child's suitcase (actually a present for newborns) from a big german drugstore chain. Still, I'm pretty happy with the result. Lot's of thanks to @splitti for thoroughly documenting his experience (I heavily profited from that!) and to @MiczFlor of course ;-)

[tulpenwase]

I present here the Phoniebox, which was lovingly christened by my daughter Klackerbox because the buttons click so beautifully when you press them. A big thank you to the community and the comprehensive documentation with which I got Airplay and MQTT running. I love the software and the freedom it gives me. Really great. For all of you who wonder why MQTT? I'm gaining more and more experience with rhasspy, an open source offline voice assistant, with which I control the phony box via voice control. I think I will have a lot more fun with the clackbox =)

[ChirpingBox]

I built a chirping box as birthday present for my 3 years old son.

I was searching for a robust music player but didn't want an old fashioned child's CD-player and also didn't like to teach him hitting a music box to play the next song. I was really glad and surprised finding the phoniebox project. It gives me the freedom to buy music on CD, as MP3 or to stream it from anwhere.

First I was a bit afraid of starting the project, because I have no programming or electrotechnical skills. I asked my husband to build the music box, but he didn't like to. The birthday of my son was closing in and I had to try it by myself. And it works!

The housing is built in the design of 2 bird's nesting boxes. Each one has a speaker placed behind the entrance hole. In the box with the peaked roof I placed the raspberry. The RFID reader is placed below the pent roof. And there is also a powerbank.

The powerbank is the only part that I don't like. It only delivers power for 1 day, although the music box is in standby most of the time. When it's completely empty and we charge it, we have to remove the cable and plug it in again to restart the raspberry. This is not intuitionally for a 3 years old boy.

My son loves his chirping box and he lets it play all his favorites songs. And he also loves to listen to the bird's voices' cards matching the design of the box.

[Dodo121188]

Hi, ich möchte gerne meine Phoniebox vorstellen. Habe sie die Tage auf die aktuelle Software umgestellt und bin sehr froh über die neuen Funktionen! Vielen Dank an dieser Stelle! Zu den Funktionen: 5 Knöpfe für play/pause, vor, zurück, lauter, leiser 1 led An/Aus Schalter ("Nase" des bären mit weißem Ring) On/off shim Diverse Karten für Hörspiele und Lieder Rfid Chips für Funktionen wie 30/60/90 Minuten Timer..

Hier eine grobe Übersicht der verbauten Teile (glaube da haben mir noch paar Teile wie micro usb Stecker gefehlt)

In Planung:

• RFID Karten neu einlaminieren (lösen sich leider wieder, vllt finde ich auch eine andere Lösung)
• Halter für die RFID Karten basteln

[fleshgordo]

Here a phoniebox "book" covered with artisan beige linen and loudspeakers hidden in the spine. Some 3d printed parts have been designed specifically for this box such as the powerbank holder which serves also as mounting surface for the raspberry pi and a tiny bezel for the OLED display.

The +5V for the LED lights in the buttons is tapped from the amplifier board which gives a visual cue that battery is drained (when not played - after idle time the raspbi shuts down anyway)

The strap is from black leather. On the bottom of the box is a RFID card wallet that can hold up to 5 cards (favourite songs). Inside the box you'll find the usual suspects (RFID reader, onOff shim) and a tiny bit of golden glitter hotglue.

For better acoustic we decided to drill three extra holes (~15mm) into the box.

Overall result: happy kid 🙂 - the book fits in a bookshelf. Thanks to the entire phoniebox community!

[marmacman]

Thank you so much for the time and work you have devoted to this project and for making it available for others to enjoy!

I made this last December for my 3 year old son. He has used it pretty much everyday this year he loves it. The whole family does. It is now the main way we all listen to music in the house.

[s-martin]

Thank you so much for the time and work you have devoted to this project and for making it available for others to enjoy!

I made this last December for my 3 year old son. He has used it pretty much everyday this year he loves it. The whole family does. It is now the main way we all listen to music in the house.

Wow, I really love this design!

[MrReSc]

The Phoniebox has a fabric-covered front that is magnetically attached. I glued fibre optic cables to the power bank to make the battery status visible outside. The phoniebox is switched on and off with an OnOff SHIM and can be charged via USB-C. I sprayed the symbols onto the wood with a stencil. All large components are attached with Velcro so that they can be easily removed. You can find more information here.

[chaskitb]

First Box for my daughter.

[UndIch]

Similar to the one from last year - touch buttons at the front seat (inside) can be used for prev/next and vol+/-