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January 22, 2008

Developing little devices

Taking a bit of a leaf out of Seb Tomczak's book, I've started making some little devices which should help me develop my installation work for the masters project. The example below is a simple piece of deviation - turning a faithful micro mp3 amplifier/speaker combo into a reliable stereo amp for installation purposes. I thought about building one from scratch, but decided that a bit of destructiveness would be more fun.


Taking the cover off to get at the circuit board.


Taking the board out of the casing, de/re-soldering wires, etc.


Adding some RCA adaptors and fitting it back to some of the casing.

Works perfectly fine, it's amazing that such a cheap piece of hardware ($25) has such good audio quality and strong signal boost. What is particulary handy about this model is having the option of both battery power (4 x AAA) and +6V adaptor power.

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