I have an old Sony home receiver that I'd like to do some personal upgrades to. It only has RCA inputs, no 3.5mm, no USB.
Does anyone have any cool project ideas? Even if it does not incorporate the Arduino.
One ideas is that I would like to hard wire bluetooth capability into the CD auxiliary. I was thinking of buying a bluetooth receiver and somehow providing power to it from the stereo. The problem is many of the little bluetooth receivers don't run when power is being provided to it because it's meant to charge a battery. Any thoughts?
I bought an Amazon Bluetooth 4.0 receiver, took it apart, integrated it into a custom amplifier. I soldered on an RP-SMA lead and it works from like 200-300ft now insted of 30. You have to get a 5v relay for the pair switch because it carries some kind of signal and wont work with long leads on it.
I have pictures of the inside of the amplifier but they are on my iphone. That amazon basics 4.0 receiver has holes in the board once you take it apart for stand-offs/mounting and the antenna is in a great spot for soldering a lead and grounding the shielding on the coax to the standoff.
Look at www.parts-express.com
I just saw a little audio bluetooth receiver and a MP3 from USB or from SD card adapter you could add in.
Both in the $10-15 range.
CalebBay812:
I bought an Amazon Bluetooth 4.0 receiver, took it apart, integrated it into a custom amplifier. I soldered on an RP-SMA lead and it works from like 200-300ft now insted of 30. You have to get a 5v relay for the pair switch because it carries some kind of signal and wont work with long leads on it.
I have pictures of the inside of the amplifier but they are on my iphone. That amazon basics 4.0 receiver has holes in the board once you take it apart for stand-offs/mounting and the antenna is in a great spot for soldering a lead and grounding the shielding on the coax to the standoff.
I would really like to do something like this. If you could post a picture of the insides, it would be much appreciated. I'd like to modify the radio in a nice professional way rather than having a bluetooth receiver hanging off the back. What's the fun in that. That Zenith looks very nice!