Make MP3 and a Holga

Who needs the iPod when you can have the HolgaPod. Use the MAKE MP3 Player kit and a Holga to make a cool portable MP3 Player.

Step 1 Parts

Parts

MakeMP3 Player Kit link
Holga (broken prefered)
3 AAA
5 momentary push button switches (N.O.)
Wire
slide switch (spst)
solderless breadboard (small)

Tools

Soldering Iron
Dremel
Snips
wire stripper
screw drivers

Comments

[Batness]

I'm so making a speaker out of a broken Holga....Great idea! Thanks for the crisp pictures too.

But just so you know, Holgas are not "cheap" or like "$9" anymore. Haven't been for some time.

[Durkin]

a very cool but strange tutorial. I would have thought that people want mp3 players to get smaller :D Its a cool mod though

[TheCheese9921]

prety awsome, but $115 bucks is kinda pricy (someone should show how to make a cheap mp3 player) I know about the minty mp3 but you have to solder it all together and end up spendig more about 100 in shipping o well thats life

[k3s]

Like you said a cheap mp3 player is always a possible substitution. For example at extreme deals they have a SD card mp3 player for 10 bucks and has been used for projects before as featured on the wooden creative zen project. http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4807

[ARVash]

the audio quality on the Make mp3 player is = to an ipod according to the stats :P. so it's not a big loss really.

[finfan7]

The reason people buy ipods is their size to memory ratio not their sound quality. You could pay 80 bucks for a two gig mp3 with great sound quality player at circuit city but its volume is half the ipod and the memory capcity is one tenth the lower of the two standard ones. Sound quality is more a function of the headphones these days than the player. If this comment reads really jerky, that is not the intent.

[TheMediocreNinja]

Quite honestly that is one of the most brilliant ideas i have seen on this website in quite a while! Very creative!!!

[joe]

Wow, Thanks! -Joe

[finfan7]

My next step would be to take out the lense assembly as cleanly as possible and install a speaker there.

[rubberbanddude]

finally a use for that p.o.s camera lol

[ARVash]

I just got the make Mp3 player, worked the first time i soldered it together, I made it through with one burn :P.

[przem]

Great work joe! This is the proof, that not only Altoids tins may be used as project boxes ;-P

[ARVash]

i think the altoids tin is too small for the make mp3 player :<.

[bondageware]

"Find a Holga, they are C H E A P. They are all over ebay, and B & H usually has them for $9." What fantasy world do you live in where Holgas are $9? and how do I get in? XP what is B & H?

[skautistic]

I love it. Keep up the great work joe. These are the type of projects that make instructables great.

[thadrien]

It is a very fun project! Continue!