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Portable tube amp

By Ben Everard. Posted

This article was originally published as part of HackSpace magazine, which has since been incorporated into Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.

Portable tube amp

This beautiful build is a portable push-pull tube amp. In the tradition of audio equipment, this won’t work on its own – you need a speaker cabinet to plug it into, plus a guitar, and maybe even enough talent to be able to play the thing.

What makes it stand out is the sheer amount of electronics packed into such a small space. It’s built into a Hammond 125B enclosure measuring around 120 × 65 × 40 mm; that enclosure is also typically used in guitar effects pedals, so packing a whole amplifier in – and one that uses three full-sized vacuum tubes – is seriously impressive.

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Ben is the Editor of HackSpace magazine. When not wrangling words, he enjoys cycling, gardening, and attempting to identify wild mushrooms.

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