covert desk lamp mic
posted Feb 28th 2005 6:25am by Jason Striegelfiled under: misc hacks
hackaday reader john young writes:
This is a beautiful hack. Australian grad student Scott Mitchell turned a (pedigreed, as it turns out) sixties desk lamp into a parabolic microphone, a la Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation.” If that movie had spy-desk-lamps, that is.
the result is a really nice looking, covert, directional mic with integrated amp. the cmoy amp circuit that is used is described in detail and scott does a really nice job of seamlessly integrating the power led, volume control, and headphone socket into the lamp. awesome.
Ah now add some leds to the bowl.
Make the Bowl Clear
Shrink Mic
Swap with coworker.
Get dirt on coworker.
Use dirt to pass coworker up on next promotion
profit.
Gain Tenure
Get coworker fired with excess dirt.
Have a nice new job.
Hmm. Now where to get a lamp.