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I am hopelessly addicted to my mp3 player. Pretty much all day long I listen to music, audiobooks, MIT lectures (new science crush: Jeremy Wolfe) , podcasts, radio shows, and the like.
You might express my listening habits by saying:
IF Lithium Rain ! = = asleep THEN Headphones_are_on
And sometimes Headphones_are_on even if Lithium Rain ! = = awake ;)
So obviously it was very vexing to have to take off my earbuds and stop listening to my favorite radio show or my rockin' tunes every morning to take a shower. I get very bored while shaving and shampooing, all I can think is IwishIwishIwishIwishIwishIhadmyzune and on the whole it's not a particularly agreeable way to start the day, bereft of glorious melodies. I tried traditional shower radios, but they eat batteries like crazy, the sound is very tinny, and if you turn it up loud enough to hear over the water other people don't always appreciate it. Thus, the ShowerPhones were born!
(I tried entering this as a slideshow but it wouldn't let me, so it's kind of a hybrid-mutant instructable-after-the-fact / slideshow thing =] )
You might express my listening habits by saying:
IF Lithium Rain ! = = asleep THEN Headphones_are_on
And sometimes Headphones_are_on even if Lithium Rain ! = = awake ;)
So obviously it was very vexing to have to take off my earbuds and stop listening to my favorite radio show or my rockin' tunes every morning to take a shower. I get very bored while shaving and shampooing, all I can think is IwishIwishIwishIwishIwishIhadmyzune and on the whole it's not a particularly agreeable way to start the day, bereft of glorious melodies. I tried traditional shower radios, but they eat batteries like crazy, the sound is very tinny, and if you turn it up loud enough to hear over the water other people don't always appreciate it. Thus, the ShowerPhones were born!
(I tried entering this as a slideshow but it wouldn't let me, so it's kind of a hybrid-mutant instructable-after-the-fact / slideshow thing =] )
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This was my very first soldering job that turned out well, I'm kinda proud of it. =]
I wanted a long cord so I could move around freely, so I cut the jack off the end of a cheap pair of headphones and soldered on an extension from an old audio in cable.
Then I wrapped all the connections in electrical tape once I figured out that the wires were shorting one another out when they touched, and shrinkwrapped around the joint so it would be waterproof.
To waterproof the headphones, I took ziplock bags and made little pouches all around the ear bits. Then I took a lighter and melted the seams together all along the edge, and sealed the top and the bottom really well with, again, electrical tape. Don't breathe the smoke that results from this...
I wanted a long cord so I could move around freely, so I cut the jack off the end of a cheap pair of headphones and soldered on an extension from an old audio in cable.
Then I wrapped all the connections in electrical tape once I figured out that the wires were shorting one another out when they touched, and shrinkwrapped around the joint so it would be waterproof.
To waterproof the headphones, I took ziplock bags and made little pouches all around the ear bits. Then I took a lighter and melted the seams together all along the edge, and sealed the top and the bottom really well with, again, electrical tape. Don't breathe the smoke that results from this...
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And sometimes Headphones_are_on even if Lithium Rain ! = = awake"
He he. This may sound nerdy, but those statements made me think of geometry...theorems to your life!
I prefer using a <a href="http://www.wikipedia.com/html>HTML</a> like coding system for nerdy responses
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I've invested in a waterproof in-wall/in-ceiling speaker (http://www.electronicstockists.com/uploadedimages/331015.jpg) made for boats/yachts and the like, I plan to run a wire through the attic and down to an audio faceplate (http://www.speakerrepair.com/ebaypics/bpwp/8_f_bx.jpg) on the wall of the adjacent room (my bedroom) which would then link via an audio amp to my stereo and tv :) so CDs, radio, TV (or digital radio from the TV) or my mp3 player via my stereo. I hope to post an instructable when i get around to doing it =:)
By the way, have you seen the Zune HD yet? :-D