Got Some Leds.

My keyboard died today T_T. After I got threw complainig about having to use the Keyboard That My IBM ThinkCenter came with which is extremely inferior to my other keyboard. I have To Wait until next summer to get some cash flow or maybe instead of my PS3 slim I can see how for I can get with $500 on my planned phenom II x3 ATI Crossfire Set-up and 4 gig of ram. The Biggest Issue Is I want A better Monitor than This piece I have Now(HOLD THAT THOUGHT) But ain't gonna happen with this dang old economy. However my impatience and desperation Will Definately Lead to another Project.(DID you hold he thought my next project is I'm gonna try To Build one one of those projectors they make wth crt monitoprs a box and a fresnel lens, and see how full of crap that it is.)

Project Update

As an update to my head phones project i finally have it all sorted out on how to finish what I started. My course of acions will be a simple vacuum forming machine. This will be perfect for shaping the intricate pices of my project. When I finnally get to that I will closely blog it.

Got Some Leather

I sacrificed An Old jacket for the Leather(supposedly leather) to use For my headphones project To make some nice padding. Not only that but the white leather sections are on deck to be resurrected to make some nice case for future projects. I don't have a picture of it because I haven't done anything with it yet. My side project will be making A nice "white leather" Zune HD case.

Cat 5 a success

I tried again with cat5 and it worked Great. I will use cat 5 for my noise cancelling project and use the extra wire for baterries. I like The extra head room the cat5 gives me.

1 Step Forward 2 Steps Back

Today I got started with soldering cutting time and cost by using crappy wire from those god forsaken dollar store headphones. The wire was so crappy the wires melted trying to solder and not only that but they were so thin they snaped nearly instntely. I'll try again tommorow using some CAT 5 and hopefully it will come out better.

Craigslist Ballin

Okay last summer the excitement of my first real job made me go a little nuts with spending and I made some Foolish purchases. However a silver lining is now i have plenty collteral. With the upcoming Zune HD and In my previous post I mentioned that I had to get my hands on one, I now can sell all of my shamefully unwise spending and use it to buy yet again a piece of technology to be phased out by something better in 3 months(ahem iPhone) but a true gadget head like myself has come to terms withthat long ago. So now my only issue is safely selling using craigslist. One thing I will use to my advantage to prevent becoming a headline is meeting people at locations near law enforcement like hospitals and police stations. Let's all hope this goes well and I get enough money to buy me next time sucker.

First Blogged Project

My project is to make my own headphones. When I say head phone I don't mean Crappy O.E.M. ones i mean I'm fixing to make a relatively decent sounding pair. It's going to definitely take a little bit for a project as ambitious as I'm shooting for to be done. I plan on before the year ends making three pairs. The first pair a relatively low end on era style, the second pair a somewhat high end active noise cancelling set which will be carefully done and I expect to take a while. The third pair, a high quality and advanced wireless set using a 1" bass driver and a mid range and high driver. This set is going to utilize large noise isolating ear pads similar to ones used on the Sony MDR-XB500 headphones. The electronics can be done in one day with my skill level of electronics. The first milestone has been made. I purchased all of the drivers needed for the on-ear and noise cancelling sets. The electronics for the on earset can be whipped together in just five minutes. The first thing to do is solder any old LED onto the driver to give a nice back lit effect. After a gather more materials for the noise cancelling set testing and tuning (if all of the stars are aligned) will immediately begin. The second hardest part of this project is definitely the construction of the headset. I'm in the process of figuring out how they will be built. An aluminum construction is being thought about. There is no shortage scrap metal to be found in my basement alone all left to do is figure out how to cut it and bend it to fit my needs. This is alot to go through just to get Good sound from a Zune HD.