Steampunk MP3 player

Porkshanks's "Ambience Enhancer" is a sweet little steampunk MP3 player mod:

I bought a pair of vintage Cannonball Empire headphones off Ebay and I disassembled and gutted them. I then transplanted the working parts of a Sony MDR-006 (that I randomly found on the ground at a bus stop 2 days ago!) into them, and viola! Cool looking 'old' headphones that work just fine with my MP3 player ^ _ ^

figuring out how to get the speakers into the Cannonballs was not easy. I actually ruined the prototype trying to do it in an overly fancy way with a different pair of sony headphones.

So then I decided I needed some way to get my MP3 player to match my steampunk daily wear.

First I hand sewed a little cover for the MP3 player and attached the brown leather protection pad to it. Then I took a raw sheet of Brass and cut out the form, bending it into shape carefully and adding the lynch pins and strapping last. I wanted to be able to wear this on my jacket as well, so I created a little latch on the left arm of my jacket so it can be put on and off easily.

Link (Thanks, Littleoracle!) (Ciarge! Il y a beaucoup de Steampunk links ici!)

[#1 posted by yurei , November 23, 2007 11:42 PM]

Wow. I love the look of this mod. But it looks devilishly heavy and a bit like some sort of wrist-mounted plasma blaster :o

[#2 posted by The Mad Hatter , November 24, 2007 1:43 AM]

I have no idea whether the feeling of embarrassment or awesomeness would win over if I wore this. It DOES look like some sort of plasma blaster

[#3 posted by porn for creative souls , November 24, 2007 4:41 AM]

Try to get that through an airport in the US!

[#4 posted by Kit10inDublin , November 24, 2007 9:33 AM]

I prefer this: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/10/windup-mp3video-play.html - featured in BoingBoing in August. I have one of the original wind-up radios. Trevor Baylis rox! ;-)

[#5 posted by DeWynken , November 24, 2007 1:42 PM]

I want to see someone make a wrist mounted Gauss gun..steampunk style of course.

[#6 posted by Miles , November 25, 2007 7:20 AM]

Steampunk... daily wear?

[#7 posted by thepez , November 25, 2007 6:12 PM]

I would not recommend to anyone wearing those "cans" on your ears. Pure torture no matter how good you make them sound!

[#8 posted by Cheesesteak the Impaler , November 26, 2007 10:53 AM]

Erm, has the stringed instrument "viola" made it into steampunk argot as an exclamation or did you mean "voila!". Real steampunks use Gutenberg pressed dictionaries for their spellchecks, not their monolingual word processors.

Cool steampunk shell, though I wonder ... would a steampunk culture really go for the personal music player the digital age refined; or would music, even recorded music, retain the public consumption or "roomy" aspect it held in the victorian era?