I MADE A ACTUALLY WORKING RADIO TODAY!!!! AAAAAAAAA
IVE SPENT LIKE A MONTH LEARNING THE SKILLS TO LEAD UP TO THIS GOD WOW OH MY GOD IM SO PROUD OF IT AND HAPPY BUT THAT WAS SO HARD OH GOD I HAD LIKE THREE DIFFERENT BREAKDOWNS BUT IT WAS SO WORTH IT
This is what it looks like!!!
I did all the metal work and wiring myself had to melt the metal on it which was really cool and really stressful cause it was very difficult to fix if i messed up even a little bit but I got a lot better as I went
I had to wonder around for like an hour trying to get it to actually pick up a frequency and when I did find one I couldn’t move and it was really funny cause my friends would just stare at me as they were doing normal things
I got the weather
A bunch of random songs often in different languages
Several places I found Christian rock??? For some reason like I had to awkwardly stand COMPLETELY STILL as my friends recorded my makeshift radio playing that stuff to prove it worked as I was left confused
Totally worth it cried and ran around celebrating when it actually worked I was so happy
If anyone knows anything about radios or mechanisms like this and has any advice I’m welcome to it