O’Reilly’s Make Magazine has a great DIY community at Instructables.com where people post photos and steps for a wide variety of how-to projects. A recent post over at Gizmodo reminded me of one of my early favorites, posted back in April 2005. The project is a small amplifier for iPods and other portable players, designed to sit between the headphone jack and a speaker system of some kind. Steps walk you through acquiring the parts from Radio Shack and Velleman, includes some shots of testing out the project and a shot of the finished assembly. Ideally you want to download the manual from Velleman to help with building the project, which isn’t entirely clear from the Instructables photo series.
The Velleman K4001 kit is part of the project and available on Amazon.
