Altoids Tin Radio

Dennis Ferron

Finally, a project I've actually finished! I didn't post this in Completed Projects because I didn't use any Parallax products making it. Maybe I'll use a Basic Stamp in the next one.

I took a cheap FM radio and converted it to use a miniature speaker and put it with batteries in an Altoids tin. Nothing too advanced but it came out nice; I'm listening to NPR on it right now.

You can read about it here: dennisferron.blogspot.com/2008/01/curiously-chocolate-radio.html

Dgswaner

That's pretty cool! I've been doing the same thing but making a 1 Watt Amp. I made one for my daughter's Ipod. I've made a few others for people who have requested them after seeing my daughters. the Amp is what I used on my current robot and if very in expensive. I'll have to incorporated a radio next time. Fun project. I got my schematic from www.runoffgroove.com

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DGSwaner

Oper8r Al

For more mint tin projects check out Make Zine here is a link to the archives for mint tins:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/altoids_and_tin_cases/

Al

Dennis Ferron

Thanks!

Edit:

I thought about putting an amplifier board I got off another device into a tin, but I don't have anything to amplify!

I really like the Dungeons of Doom tin in the Makezine link. I made a text adventure for the Atmega8 last summer, but only ran it on a breadboard. That Dungeons of Doom one connects to a TV; mine used the serial port and you play it in Hyperterminal. I've thought about putting that into a tin.

Post Edited (Dennis Ferron) : 1/4/2008 12:29:59 AM GMT