I swear, I didn’t see this until I posted yesterday’s post: it’s basically the same thing, but mono (so much for stereo separation anyways), and amplified! I’ll definitely build myself one of these. They’d also make great gifts for guitar playing friends. Refer to yesterday’s project for installing felt in the tin, as it probably [...]
04 Mar
I love just about every project that’s built around the Altoids tins. This one is no exception: mini speakers made of recycled headphones. You could also use those cheap mini-speakers that they sell at your local electronic parts store. Altoids Tin Mini Speakers [link]
25 Dec
Here’s a great tutorial on how to make your iPod sound better by modding the analog data path after the Digital to Analog Converters. Basically, iPods are made to drive the shitty little white ear buds – not proper headphones like the ones in the picture. I do in fact own a couple of pairs [...]
20 Dec
TVs are everywhere, in public place, streaming mind-numbing contents to whatever eyeballs they might capture. The TV-B-Gone is basically a universal remote that shuts off virtually any model of TV ever produced. There’s one catch: if you go to your favorite electronics store and shut down their wall of TVs, you might get in [...]
11 Dec
I’m guessing that there are thousands of tons of perfectly good earphones in landfills today, all because their owners threw them away when the mini jack connector came loose, broke off, or got all “squelchy”. This instructable should be printed on the packaging of the earphones when you buy them. It teaches you how to [...]
08 Dec
Instructions on how to make a nice sleeve for the iPod Nano made from an recycled bicycle inner tube. Simple, functional, elegant. iPod Nano Case from a Bike Inner-tube [link]
05 Mar