Finished my "Little Gem"

[thumposaurus]

Just finished wiring up and stiching up my Little Gem, amp thingy, well I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves.





As an added suprise it appears the little guys eyes fade in and out depending on the signal going through them probably because of how I have them hooked into the circuit but it's a nice effect, I do have one more output jack to add (guess where :twisted: ) and maybe a power jack, I think the LEDs are going to cut down on battery life.

[bobbletrox]

lol!  That's one possessed teddybear  :twisted:

great idea!

[javacody]

Where's the speaker? Up its ass?   :lol:

[thumposaurus]

Where's the speaker? Up its ass?   :lol:

No, the electronis itself is up his ass, the speaker is sewn into the chest on the inside, the bear was origanlly one of those giglin' and wigglin' ones, so it already had a nice little chamber in which to cram the circuit and battery.

And here's a crappy movie of the eyes, flashing to the guitar signal
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Thumposaurus/bearamp.WMV

[Ansil]

tht looks cool,,   i thought about a teddy ruxbin  cuase he moves his mouth and eye to the beat of the music..

[Marcos - Munky]

Cooooollllll!!!!!! Need to build one "bear amp" for me too  :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted: .

[smoguzbenjamin]

And I was proud of making a 386-based amp (not quite little gem) in a silver box

[javacody]

I wonder if the bear adds a little "fuzz" to your tone?  

[David]

No, it probably adds "growl"!

Sorry, couldn't help it...

[Jim Jones]

That's somehow evil.  

Jim

[Nasse]

I have been planning a Teddy Bear cloth covered Vox AC-30 clone, but this beats it!

[Mark Hammer]

Is that one of those Taiwanese "budget thermal enclosures" Steve Daniels told me he would be getting in? :wink:

Man, and I thought my T-tone amp was adorable (hammer.ampage.org).  This one makes me want to bring my guitar to bed and snuggle up!

What next, a Lego amp?

[thumposaurus]

Thanks for all the great comments guys, every one I've shown this to thinks it's the greatest idea in the world. Oh and Mark funny you should mention the lego thing when I was looking for something to put this into I came across my bag of legos and was contemplating building an enclousre with them, I still may.

[smoguzbenjamin]

Lego, eh?