Dead Ringer Head Set Hack

by tk421dan

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Intro: Dead Ringer Head Set Hack

I really enjoy using Skype but wanted to keep the feel of using an old fangled phone and give my friends a good laugh when they saw me through video chats, so I made this device.

What you'll need is an old telephone (the ones with the big metal ringers inside them and the twirly knobs) but all we're gonna use from that is the "headset" the twisty cable and the female plug from the phone with about two inches of it's wires still attached (mine were red, green, yellow, and black)
and to finish it of you'll need two mono male 1/8 audio jacks if you do what I did, but i imagine you could do this another way to.

right now the receiver is a little quite (cause it's not up to line level, but that's for a later time).

STEP 1: Soldering

So really all you have to do is solder the right wires togeather i tested with a mono jack that had been cut from a longer cord and twisted the wires togeather and used some robin williams from my ipod.

for me red and geen when to the speaker (top)
and yellow and black to the reciver (bottom)
hence i have the receiver as a red and the speaker as black port

I promise my next instructable will be more through, but I've been making things for a very long time and just decided on a whime to do this, I'd apreciate any positive feedback, and let me know how this goes if you to make one of these, or already have.

13 Comments

d1ndian 13 years ago

hi, i was looking this Instructable for ages, i saw it years ago and i stored a working printer with fax, i got the headset outta it to use it as a microphone and speaker for voice calls. Btw i always thought u used an USB plug instead of audio video jack. However is it possible if i can add an USB plug instead of jacks?

djr6789 15 years ago

is this one of them headpone/microphone things that you use on online video calls?

djr6789 14 years ago

i made one but the speaker is very quiet and the microphone didnt work at all please help -thanks

toogers 14 years ago

then it's too old, and uses a different type of mic. and for the speaker, you need an inline amplifier circuit. i'll take pictures and post e'm later

djr6789 14 years ago

thank you so much for your help

tap 15 years ago

thanks! i've done it somehow and it suprisingly works! just haven't foud such a nice phone as you have..

Bratton 15 years ago

Cool idea! Just need to find a old phone now....

Hycro 15 years ago

Or if you couldn't find one, mock-up one from cardboard, then coat it with fibreglass, to achieve the look and feel.

pieloveralex 15 years ago

hey can you get the mono jacks off, say, earphones?

Derin 15 years ago

I think the line level is already supplied with the mic port,multimeter away to find out dial on