Hacked baby monitor becomes wireless guitar amplifier

Whenever your baby monitor isn't pulling in live NASA feeds (or making sure all is well in the life of your child), why not let it really wail? An ingenious hack created by jovial_cynic has us all too excited to snag a Safety 1st monitor of our own, as he's figured out a way to convert it into a low-fi wireless guitar amp. Granted, Mr. Cynic uses a mandolin to demonstrate, but everything from an electric banjo to a Les Paul Custom could take advantage. Hit up the read link to see how it all came together, and peep the in-action video after the break.

[Via MAKE]

[195ac243 Posted Mar 6th 2008 9:31AM]

wtf hax

[scotttherobot Posted Mar 6th 2008 10:07AM]

I did something like this once but i used it as a wireless phone-tap-like device.. didnt work very well, i now think it would of worked if i used an audio transformer between the phone line and the mic inputs. Its long lost, although i do wish i still had it.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2008 11:06AM]

Ah yes, amazing what you could pick up back in the days of 900mhz cordless phones...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2008 12:17PM]

Does not sound hard. I did something similar with one of thoes super listening devices that the were selling on TV .

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2008 12:21PM]

Mandolin ftw!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2008 1:32PM]

When I was 6 I cracked my little brothers baby monitor open and messed around with the inside until I was able to pick up radio stations.

To my surprise my parents didn't freak out once they heard it working

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2008 8:11PM]

I wonder if it will be able to handle low bass tones... i may have to try this myself!