Post by vincentvaughan on Apr 18, 2013 2:01:05 GMT
Hello everyone
Woke up this morning to a storm blowing outside so said to hell with it I'm not going out in that so I got stuck into a project that's been going round in my mind for a long time
The project being could I make a remote controlled mp3 player from scrap
Well I succeeded
I'm the worst in the world for never throwing anything out just in case it might come in handy for something sometime.....thus my life is full of crap.
Found a junk nokia phone which has a media player and sd card slot in it
Found a battery that would hold a charge and fixed up some loose connections and dry joints......imagine the scene, I needed glasses and two magnifying glasses to see what i was doing, the soldering iron looked and felt like a crowbar
Got it to work as a media player with wavs and mp3s and sounds great
Then went on to the job of making it remote control
I wanted to be able to control it with foot pedals, start stop track forward and reverse lots of trial and error in the guts of the phone but no great joy, managed a few functions by shorting out connections but circuitry to small to solder anything to it
Back to the junk box and after a lot of rooting found a nokia headphones adaptor with controls on the cable, plugged it into the headphones socket and waalllaaa I had control
Immediately butchered the remote control worked out which wire done what
Needed a few resistors to make 3 wires do six jobs, long story so won't go into it but back to the junk box found what I needed on a few broken circuit boards then set about the job of wiring it all up in such a way that it will be durable and travel ok
Long story short I can now control the functions of the media player with 3 foot pedals making it completely hands free while playing my guitar
It's nice and compact and will clip onto the mix stand
Found a 16gig sd card in a broken camera so should be able to store a zillion songs...well a good few anyway
Total cost.....0 euros all made from junk that should have been dumped long ago
Anyway that's my rant over for now I'm going to try the same trick with an iPhone next
I will try n upload a picture in a few days
Regards
Vincent
Woke up this morning to a storm blowing outside so said to hell with it I'm not going out in that so I got stuck into a project that's been going round in my mind for a long time
The project being could I make a remote controlled mp3 player from scrap
Well I succeeded
I'm the worst in the world for never throwing anything out just in case it might come in handy for something sometime.....thus my life is full of crap.
Found a junk nokia phone which has a media player and sd card slot in it
Found a battery that would hold a charge and fixed up some loose connections and dry joints......imagine the scene, I needed glasses and two magnifying glasses to see what i was doing, the soldering iron looked and felt like a crowbar
Got it to work as a media player with wavs and mp3s and sounds great
Then went on to the job of making it remote control
I wanted to be able to control it with foot pedals, start stop track forward and reverse lots of trial and error in the guts of the phone but no great joy, managed a few functions by shorting out connections but circuitry to small to solder anything to it
Back to the junk box and after a lot of rooting found a nokia headphones adaptor with controls on the cable, plugged it into the headphones socket and waalllaaa I had control
Immediately butchered the remote control worked out which wire done what
Needed a few resistors to make 3 wires do six jobs, long story so won't go into it but back to the junk box found what I needed on a few broken circuit boards then set about the job of wiring it all up in such a way that it will be durable and travel ok
Long story short I can now control the functions of the media player with 3 foot pedals making it completely hands free while playing my guitar
It's nice and compact and will clip onto the mix stand
Found a 16gig sd card in a broken camera so should be able to store a zillion songs...well a good few anyway
Total cost.....0 euros all made from junk that should have been dumped long ago
Anyway that's my rant over for now I'm going to try the same trick with an iPhone next
I will try n upload a picture in a few days
Regards
Vincent
