Quick Bits
Tips and tools for digital diversions.
Portable Audio & Video
DIY Bluetooth Frankenphones
When Sarah Lemarié’s Logitech Bluetooth headphones snapped in half, as they are apparently wont to do, she did what any self-respecting hardware hacker would do: she mashed them up with a pair of corded phones that she liked to create her own set of wireless Frankenphones. Project: Wired to wireless headphones – Link Related: Bluetooth […]
Custom Digital Stereoscopy Rig
Really cool custom built digital camera based 3D stereoscopy device made by one of our Scrapyard Challenge workshop participants. Update: This is the work of James G. Watt – check out his website here: www.clockworkrobot.com and a video of our workshop taken with the camera here.
Binder clip device dock
Binder clips have a 101 uses. Here’s one of them. (Not sure I’d want my gadget just hangin’ out there like that.) The Ridiculously Clever Dock – Link
RC4560-based headphone amplifier
This SMD op-amp project uses the TI RC-4560 dual op-amp chip and a salt water-etched PCB. The builder got the op-amp as a free sample from Texas Instruments and scavenged all of the SMD resistors from old hard drive electronics. The results are not pretty, but they’re functional. The circuit used (with some changes) is […]
IPod nano and Classic tear-downs
Once again, the driver-wielding nerds over at iFixit can (apparently) claim first crack at a 3rd gen iPod nano and the new iPod Classic. They’ve posted tear-downs, with notes, of both new players on their site. iPod nano 3rd Generation – [via] Link iPod Classic – [via] Link
More mint-tin amp action
Michael O’Brien, a.k.a. Turbotron, has posted pics of this project to the MAKE Flickr Pool. It’s a mint-tin amp based on the LM386 chip, the same op-amp chip used in the MAKE Mousey the Junkbot and Cracker Box Amp projects. The case is an Altoids box, painted gloss black enamel, the grill is from a […]
