Aisle 8No. 180 of 460
Splashery
Boombox
200,000 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Photoreal · Capture
Boombox
A boombox is a portable stereo: a radio, a cassette tape player and two big speakers in one box with a handle, run on batteries so music could go anywhere.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to play a beat.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 180 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 8, Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Small parts
- 200,000
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- CC0, MIT, BSD
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
About it
A boombox is a portable stereo: a radio, a cassette tape player and two big speakers in one box with a handle, run on batteries so music could go anywhere. They were hugely popular in the 1970s and 1980s, carried to parks, streets and beaches.
Tap it and it plays two bars of a beat: the speakers pump and glow blue on each kick drum, and the tape reels turn. A cassette holds a thin plastic tape covered in tiny magnetic grains, and the music is stored in the pattern of their magnetism.
Sources and credits
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
