... And this is why throwing things away is wrong (NB: Sarcasm).

[hirez]

Gah. It's a pretty poor turn of events when a chap's boxes of electronic detritus contain no microphones. Modems, USB cables, knives, torches, globular plugs, phones, welding goggles, a roll-up keyboard (knackered and thus binned, sadly), a Stylophone (filled with germanium transistors, so from before a time when that twinkle in Rolf's eye was allegedly actionable) and a spare soldering iron - yes.

Microphones - no.

Not even cutting up the half-dozen nasty Nokia/S-E hands-free sets and pointing the 'scope at them was any use.

Hopeless.

I see I'm going to turn into one of those useless grownups with one rusty screwdriver that's been worn to a point through misuse and a pair of molegrips ditto.

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[quercus.livejournal.com]

Laptop speaker or headphone speaker. Makes a usable dynamic mic.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[FX: Pokes at S-E earbuds dug out of the bin]

Boo. Magic non-solderable 'wire'.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

You're right, that is shabby. You may be driven to Maplins.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I feel so cheap.

I was there for electrolytics this arvo, since it's below $work. Not much in the way of microphones...

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Hm. To the Interwebs ? What's it for, anyhow ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I fear so. I'd hoped to be able to cruft things together from bits I had lying about the place.

Snoring monitor.

[neefsck.livejournal.com]

Never throw out that rusty screw driver, or molegrips.

Seriously, One day you'll need them for something vitally important.

By Important I don't mean extracting someones teeth or shanking them in the back of the skull so as to make a minimum of mess.
No, I mean something *mechanical*
Something that *no* other tool in its shiny, brand new unsullied glory will be able to achieve.

[hsb.livejournal.com]

Oddly, we have a stray microphone lying around. I don't know what that says about us. A picked it up, after E found some bit of kit that it would plug into. Unfortunately, the original bit of kit has vanished, but E likes playing with the mic.

H