Tha Lil' Nug

About the boombox

Tha Lil' Nug is a small but surprisingly bangin' 6-inch mid-woof. You plug your mp3 into it-- iPod, cell-phone, whatever. Stroll down the street with tha Lil' Nug bumpin' in one hand, or hang it from your bicycle handlebars and take your beats for a spin.

More info at bayviewboom.org.

The BOOM

Jesus builds his boombox

Chay and Kammie build their boombox

Social issues we're addressing:

• Health: Bicycle boomboxes promote bicycling for fitness-- obesity is is a recognized problem this community.
• Environment: Bicycling is an alternative to burning fossil fuels. Learning to build and repair things is a departure from the cycle of buy, discard, buy, discard.
• Crime: Our youths will earn money building our product, an alternative to drug-dealing and theft.
• Poverty: We teach tech for career development.
• Intellectual Development: Building electronics cultivates cognitive problem-solving skills, among teens who think that violence is the only solution.
• Violence, Trauma, & Healing: One third of youths in the community we serve suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, from exposure to violence. Building things is therapeutic and meditative. Furthermore, our program fills youths' idle time with productive activities, so they will not get distracted by petty crime, gangs, drug-dealing, guns, and violence. Our goal is to foster collaborations between rival gangs, through group builds and group rides.
• Human Development: Our activities create profound pride of accomplishment and self-empowerment: "When you build something powerful and beautiful, it makes you feel powerful and beautiful".
• Technological Literacy: The Bay Area is an international center of technology, so it's ironic that an entire demographic does not have access to technological literacy. Our program addresses this disadvantage.

Call for volunteers

We are looking for volunteers to help us develop the boombox and take it to a place where it can be sold. See below for how we will use the money.
If interested in helping, please contact John by email at john [at] bvhpradio [dot] org.

Presentation of the Bayview BOOM

The workshops

Focus on some parts

Sales of the Lil' Nug will enable The Bayview BOOM to:

• put electronics skills into the hands of more of our neighbors
• enable underprivileged youths to develop tech skills, and make some money
• purchase capacitors, soldering irons, spray paint, and so on
• perfect our boombox design
• grow our community bicycle repair facilities
• and host more motorcycle repair classes.