super-retro war-era headphones

The other week I was at a car boot sale, and found these old wartime headphones for £2. They looked cool, but I had absolutely no idea what to do with them. Then I decided to gut them, and use parts from a cheap airplane set of headphones to make them work properly with an iPod or computer.

I uploaded the how-to on instructables. I love this site - people upload designs and plans of all kinds of homemade things, from LED throwies:

to how to screen print from home

The things which site offers people is context - it brings together like-minded people to talk about and do like-minded stuff. I could have just put the photos and instructions on Flickr, but this way it brings it to more people who'd find it interesting and leave any helpful feedback. This is the way that the web will go - more very specific networks for different groups of interest.

So anyway here's my very first instructable!

The headphones sound utterly brilliant, and I can wear them for at least 1-2 hours before they're cripplingly uncomfortable. People seem to be quite enthralled by them too. If I had to do it all again I think I would use all black instead of red and black wire.