Collaborate Disseminate
[befi] brings us a project as impressive as it is reminiscent of older times, a Blu-Ray mini disk player. Easily fitting inside a pocket like a 8 cm CD player …read more Continue reading An Ingenious Blu-Ray Mini-Disk Player
Inspired by many months of hours-long load shedding in South Africa, [JGJMatt] decided to make a portable speaker that can play tunes for hours on a single charge and even …read more Continue reading Building a Solar-Powered, Supercapacitor-Based Speaker
If aliens visited the Earth, they might find our obsession with music hard to fathom. We have music in our homes, our cars, and our elevators. Musical performances draw huge …read more Continue reading Is That a Record Player in Your Pocket or…
A speaker project isn’t usually very different, but we couldn’t help but notice [Electronoob’s] latest speaker not for its audio performance but because it features dancing ferrofluid and is an …read more Continue reading A Speaker with Dancing Ferrofluid
Solar panels are a great way to generate clean electricity, but require some energy storage mechanism if you also want to use their power at night. This can be a …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Supercapacitors Let Solar Speaker Work in Darkness
One thing you won’t read in reviews of pricey Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones – if you choose them, you’re going to find yourself in a one-sided abusive relationship. A button press …read more Continue reading One Hacker’s Battle To Slightly Improve A Sadistic Sony Headset
This might sound like a familiar problem – you get a Bluetooth speaker, and it sounds nice, but it also emits all kinds of weird sounds every now and then. …read more Continue reading Bluetooth Speaker Domesticated Through Firmware Mod
One of the most common ways to junk a pair of headphones is to damage the cord. Obviously, the lead can be repaired, but it involves busting out the soldering …read more Continue reading Adding An Audio Jack To Classic Headphones Is a Nifty Upgrade
We sure love to see nicely designed products get a new lease on life. Just as the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 was being announced, [production] was stuffing an original …read more Continue reading iPod Mod Puts Pi Zero in New Bod
For anyone with an interest in building audio projects, it’s likely that an early project will be a headphone amplifier. They’re relatively easy to build from transistors, ICs, or tubes, …read more Continue reading Drive High-Impedance Headphones With This Stylish USB DAC