We’ve featured life hacker Dave Hax here on BoredomBash quite a few times, mostly because his videos are pretty awesome. But he’s really surpassed himself here… It seems pretty unlikely, but Dave knows how to create a microphone out of nothing more than a matchbox, a pencil, a battery and some wire! Yep – seriously. This makes for a really cool science experiment to do with kids. Or just something cool to do generally!
Check it out:
Did you know?
The first microphone was invented as part of a  telephone transmitter by Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.