Post by Pasta Sauce on Feb 2, 2006 21:54:05 GMT -8
Yes I got music to play over a beep code speaker.
And I was impressed by it.
Things you need:
A standard 4-pin (well it can support four, theres only two pins in it) beep code speaker.
picture of the connector here:
not to mention a 1/8" jack (standard headphone size)
I used a stero jack from a pair of busted headphones.
wirestrippers
a lighter (if the jack has inner insulation and the wire isn't thick enough to strip; use that. Copper wiring is a bitch. A couple strands missing isn't a big deal though.)
Solder (optional)
Soldering iron (optional)
Electrical tape
A clean work area
Cut the headphone wire about four inches about the jack oh whatever feels right to you.
Seperate the headphone wires (like in the picture above)
strip about an inch of the exterior insulation.
theres probably copper or some sort of wire strands wrapped around the inner insulation. just pull those back and cut them off. you don't need them. all that does is ground the wire.
next strip (or burn) the inner insulation off so theres just the wire itself.
twist the wire clockwise (or which ever way you prefer, just as long as when you repeat the step you do it the same way.
Repeat it on the other wire
now on the back of the speaker connecter (flat black thing) there should be two metal contacts open in the back.
touch one wire to one contact and the other wire to, you guessed it, the other contact.
while your doing this have the jack connected to your mp3 player on FULL blast. listen closely. when you hear noises comming out you got it right.
remember what combo it was.
usually its dark to dark and light to light
in my case yellow to black and white to yellow
now cut the speaker wire and untwist it if it is.
strip it.
twist the wires
now twist the headphone wire with the speaker wire
and same with the other one
if you want to, you can solder it like I did
dependeding on how good it stays twisted together.
now wrap each individual newly connected wire together with electrical tape.
and you are done.
hopefully you did a better job on the last step than I did.
I've been testing it on differnt things and so far my MP3 player plays on it best.
EDIT:
now at the beginning I said the sound quality was impressive but it really sucks so don't expect too much
Its impressive for a speaker that was originally intended to play one frequency only.
it mostly sounds like static. you can hear some lyrics. guitar solos sound 8-bit-ish
The intro to Slipknot's Opium of the People sounds cool.
For testing I just used slipknot's heritic anthem (due to the really heavy parts in the song i can tell when its actually playing something.
I also used other various slipknot songs and Presidents of the United States of America songs.
on the PUSA songs you can hear the singers voice more clearer.
This is more of a impress-your-nerdy-friends-at-a-lan-party-mod than anything.
sort of like "hacking" a coke machine.
And I was impressed by it.
Things you need:
A standard 4-pin (well it can support four, theres only two pins in it) beep code speaker.
picture of the connector here:
not to mention a 1/8" jack (standard headphone size)
I used a stero jack from a pair of busted headphones.
wirestrippers
a lighter (if the jack has inner insulation and the wire isn't thick enough to strip; use that. Copper wiring is a bitch. A couple strands missing isn't a big deal though.)
Solder (optional)
Soldering iron (optional)
Electrical tape
A clean work area
Cut the headphone wire about four inches about the jack oh whatever feels right to you.
Seperate the headphone wires (like in the picture above)
strip about an inch of the exterior insulation.
theres probably copper or some sort of wire strands wrapped around the inner insulation. just pull those back and cut them off. you don't need them. all that does is ground the wire.
next strip (or burn) the inner insulation off so theres just the wire itself.
twist the wire clockwise (or which ever way you prefer, just as long as when you repeat the step you do it the same way.
Repeat it on the other wire
now on the back of the speaker connecter (flat black thing) there should be two metal contacts open in the back.
touch one wire to one contact and the other wire to, you guessed it, the other contact.
while your doing this have the jack connected to your mp3 player on FULL blast. listen closely. when you hear noises comming out you got it right.
remember what combo it was.
usually its dark to dark and light to light
in my case yellow to black and white to yellow
now cut the speaker wire and untwist it if it is.
strip it.
twist the wires
now twist the headphone wire with the speaker wire
and same with the other one
if you want to, you can solder it like I did
dependeding on how good it stays twisted together.
now wrap each individual newly connected wire together with electrical tape.
and you are done.
hopefully you did a better job on the last step than I did.
I've been testing it on differnt things and so far my MP3 player plays on it best.
EDIT:
now at the beginning I said the sound quality was impressive but it really sucks so don't expect too much
Its impressive for a speaker that was originally intended to play one frequency only.
it mostly sounds like static. you can hear some lyrics. guitar solos sound 8-bit-ish
The intro to Slipknot's Opium of the People sounds cool.
For testing I just used slipknot's heritic anthem (due to the really heavy parts in the song i can tell when its actually playing something.
I also used other various slipknot songs and Presidents of the United States of America songs.
on the PUSA songs you can hear the singers voice more clearer.
This is more of a impress-your-nerdy-friends-at-a-lan-party-mod than anything.
sort of like "hacking" a coke machine.