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The Awesome Friends Cable
April 05, 2006
I have the awesomest friends. (If you think you do you are wrong. Because I do.) And sometimes they leave me the awesomest voicemails and I have been wanting a way to save them. The old method of micing the phone itself never really worked well and I realized that the phone does have an audio out so I made this cable last night so that I could get phone activity directly into a recording device. |
It started with an 1/8 inch jack and an old hands free unit with a broken mic we had laying around {thanks [M]}. |
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Once I took the hands free unit apart I realized that there where 2 cables (one for voice, one for ears) so I had to crack the mic open to see which one went where. The copper+red one was the one I needed. |
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Each set of 2 wires was in one plastic tubing with a very loose divider so I had to protect them from each other. I just smashed some electrical tape around the one. |
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After I soldered the points to the 1/8 jack and put the jack housing back up and around I taped off the end I was not using and I had my cable. |
Posted by A at April 5, 2006 10:35 AM
Comments
do those new macs have AFC support built in?
on April 5, 2006 05:13 PM
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102970&cp=2032058.2032228.2032251&cp=2032058.2032228&f=Taxonomy%2FRSK%2F2032251&categoryId=2032251&kwCatId=2032058&kw=audio+cable&parentPage=search
There are cheaper sources. These are very easy to find.
on June 16, 2006 08:48 PM
well, that link is still 1/8 " on both ends. what i used was one of these left over from a different project
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2104062&cp=2032058.2032231.2032280&pg=3&allCount=277&fbn=Price%2FUnder+%243.99&fbc=1&fr=StorePrice%2FRSK%2F00000000%2F00000399&parentPage=family
and a broken hands free device because the line out jack for the hands free on the phone (on my Treo anyway) is much smaller than 1/8"
on June 16, 2006 09:06 PM
Congrats on making Make!
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/06/the_awesome_friends_cable.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
on June 16, 2006 10:27 PM
I think that what you want, instead, is a 1/8" to 3/32" convertor, also available at any RadioShack. Then you can use a standard 1/8" patch cable to accomplish the same thing. To each his/her own.
on June 17, 2006 01:46 AM
i have a pile of disfunctional phone sets. they end in 3/32nd phone plugs. the phone plug ends for phones has 1 ring, 1 shaft and 1 tip. did you figure out which goes which? as in Tip + ring is microphone, Tip + Shaft is earphone. or is it the other way around?
on June 17, 2006 04:03 AM
You fail to account for the possibility that someone else has the SAME friends.
If someone thinks that they have awesome friends maybe they are RIGHT because they have the same friends as you.
Thats only the first of many flaws in your reasoning.
on June 17, 2006 12:39 PM
Fair enough. but since there are different levels of friendship, and i know who some of my freind's friends are... i can pretty much garuntee that no one has the same set that i do.
And stop discrediting my friends awesomeness. :)
on June 17, 2006 02:56 PM
Ethan, I'm sure there is something out there that also does this. I am sure that I did not invent this... but what I did do is make something I needed from broken parts that would have otherwise been garbage.
on June 17, 2006 02:59 PM
"what I did do is make something I needed from broken parts that would have otherwise been garbage"
Exactly. Good job.
on June 17, 2006 03:41 PM
Now I want to hack one of those lame bluetooth earpieces to have an audio out so I can record voicemails sort of half-wirelessly.
on June 23, 2006 11:13 PM
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