MP3 Cassette Solution

So I'm stuck with a cassette player in my rusted Magna. I needed tunes but was fed up with the cable from the cassette adapter to the MP3 player cluttering up the console.
I needed a freakish solution.

Step 1 The lucky find,

My original MP3 Player was too fat for this mod. Luckily there exists an Ipod Shuffle knock-off for less than AU$30! Having a generic 5pin USB connection was also handy. After taking out the main screw, and a few minutes of coaxing...you have the wafer thin innards on the desk and some spare parts.

Comments

[ScannerWA]

This is an interesting solution, but I simply bought a cassette player, some cables to go from it to the computer sound card, and used Audacity (free) and Lame codecs (to save as mp3) to save my collection.

[joe57005]

You could use the cassette deck to control it if you add some rotation sensors and some simple electronics.

[bhunter736]

Hi, I was so inspired, its too late. : ) I didnt build a replica of yours, I took the idea you gave me and ran with that. I see the link, and for $22, your right, I will probably just order one since I no longer have the parts laying around. I bought a cheap unit and made a permanent mount so that it fits neatly between the top of the car stereo and the vents. very clean. These are so darn cheap. Now there is no reason for me to lug my 20G expensive unit everywhere all the time. I can take it for longer trips of course, but 2G is a lot of music to just keep in the car. : )

[Rustworks]

Ak! Sorry folks - it isn't a cake. Unless you enjoy the taste of chewy delicious lithium-ion compound. I had no clue that the cake comp was really only for 'cakes'.
Having a cassette that plays back anything you like for 4 hours (reducing the need for a giant tape collection) might be stretching the limits of going green. Indeed when you can buy something similar (ak! not an original thought after all) for only $22...
http://www.creobic.com/?p=149
the time and effort spent putting it all together seems pretty wasteful. But I make no further apologies, being my first posted mash up I'm pretty proud. Given the inherent flaws in the design and weird playback...maybe it should have been posted as Art?
Thanks to the constructive critics. I will check what I'm getting into before entering my next instructable into the 'safe for pets' comp - and stick to making paperclips out of ring pulls for the 'green' category.
Thanks All
Rustworks.

[bhunter736]

I love this! Cool! Now you have me thinking too! I hate the adapter wire in my car. Maybe I should invest in a cheap player and commit it to the car adapter. Not in quite the same fashion, but on a semi flexible arm, the whole player could be held outside the opening by the cassette adapter. This would only work with those big stock stereo cassette players like I have, but so what. Thanks for the ideas. : ) I may have to make one just like yours too, just for the looks on coworkers faces. : )

[bhunter736]

I havent been able to stop thinking about your project all morning. I have even researched a couple cheap mp3 players to "commit" to the car adapter. : )

[Rustworks]

Before racing out to spend $30 bucks on the MP3 player...(crestfallen look) there is already a $22 chinese item that does basically the same job that I had posted - albeit with an SD card reader.

[LinuxH4x0r]

where? link?

[LinuxH4x0r]

Sweet! looks like it wold work great

[Eric95]

How is this a cake? It's in the cake contest!

[PKM]

The green credentials are tenuous, as well. I'm starting to think competition entries should be moderated before even getting into competitions- there are only a couple of hundred at most per competition, it wouldn't be an excessive amount of work to do (it doesn't take long to figure out this isn't a cake, for instance).

[GorillazMiko]

How's this a cake? ~~It looks delicious!~~ :P