{"id":3005,"date":"2010-08-03T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:03","slug":"bluetooth-headset-handgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/bluetooth-headset-handgun\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth Headset inside a [toy] Handgun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MayorMike<\/a>,\u00a0inspired by the article I wrote for Make vol. 20 (Retro Wireless Handset<\/a>), stuck a bluetooth headset in a plastic toy gun to create his\u00a0Handgun Bluetooth Earpiece Project<\/a>. \u00a0The best part – the earphone is located at the end of the barrel, so to answer a call, you stick it up to your ear. \u00a0Genius.<\/p>\n

The innards are shown below.<\/p>\n

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Nice work, MayorMike! \u00a0May I suggest that you pair this with a Hand Grenade MP3 Player<\/a>?<\/p>\n

via BoingBoing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MayorMike,\u00a0inspired by the article I wrote for Make vol. 20 (Retro Wireless Handset), stuck a bluetooth headset in a plastic toy gun to create his\u00a0Handgun Bluetooth Earpiece Project. \u00a0The best part – the earphone is located at the end of the barrel, so to answer a call, you stick it up to your ear. \u00a0Genius. … Continue reading Bluetooth Headset inside a [toy] Handgun<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[101,36,25,102,294],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","tag-bluetooth","tag-diy","tag-hack","tag-handset","tag-makezine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-Mt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":668,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/bluetooth-handset-hack\/","url_meta":{"origin":3005,"position":0},"title":"Bluetooth Handset Hack","author":"Jeff","date":"November 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Kylie recently gave me an old, broken Motorola HS820 bluetooth headset.\u00a0 The headset suffered from a defective microphone that resulted in extremely low volume on outgoing audio, even though everything else worked fine. 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