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Not so long ago, a Chinese manufacturer developed this device for the happy owners of cassette recorders, who do not have enough money to buy a normal MP3 player.
Cheap and cheerful - it is relatively cheap (I took for 200 rubles), while it has several advantages including a remote control. It's simple: put it in the cigarette lighter, stuck a USB flash drive with your favorite music, tuned the radio to the transmitter frequency and that’s it! Clack from the remote without touching your hands from a distance.
I don’t have a car, but I decided to use this thing in my own way. Like a stereo transmitter. Why do I need it? And in order to broadcast sound from the laptop to the music center. The fact is that I like to watch a movie on the big screen, on the projector. I connect the video from the laptop to a straight line, and to connect the sound you need to pull a long wire to the center. That's to prevent this, I decided to get rid of the wires in my own way.

Stereo FM transmitter from MP3 player


Bought, disassembled. Having made a peculiar bunch of details.

Stereo FM transmitter from MP3 player


Share the device into two parts: a small board is a stabilizer. It reduces the voltage to 5 volts and accordingly stabilizes it. 3 wires go to it: two power wires and a third antenna (white in color). The big board with the display is the MP3 player itself.

Stereo FM transmitter from MP3 player


We solder all three wires from a large board. We solder a longer wire for the place of the antenna wire to increase the radius of the transmission. We take the USB adapter and solder the power to the board from it as shown in the figure.

Stereo FM transmitter from MP3 player

Stereo FM transmitter from MP3 player


Next, connect the sound to the transmitter. We find the transmitter chip. Sound comes from the processor through a two-chip capacitor. We remove these capacitors, I just gently knocked them with a screwdriver. The work is painstaking. We solder two capacitors with a nominal value of 0.01 ... 0.1 μF to the output of the microcircuit and apply sound to them. The common wire is taken from the minus board. That's all. It would be nice to add a divider of resistors to each input, say 1: 2, otherwise the output of the laptop is more high-voltage than necessary. But then I realized it.

Stereo FM transmitter from MP3 player


Close, check. Works!

Stereo FM transmitter from MP3 player

Stereo FM transmitter from MP3 player

Stereo FM transmitter from MP3 player


Very comfortably! Our transmitter is also powered by a laptop. The quality is certainly not like through a wire, but pretty decent. Now, with the remote control, you can blame only the transmitted frequency, the rest has lost its power. I think there is nothing complicated here, anyone with little effort will do it himself without important problems.

Stereo FM transmitter from MP3 player
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Comments (13)
  1. Veent
    #1 Veent Guests January 19, 2013 18:35
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    Great approach)) I would still gut out the usb columns to make one usb cable
    Maybe you still know how to do code grabbers?
  2. Dimazik
    #2 Dimazik Guests January 23, 2013 13:55
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    Great idea! The author is five plus!

    [b] Veent [/ b], you are a crooked little man who knows nothing in his life besides criticizing other people's skills.
    Probably it is from the start.Be a man - respect the labor of others!
  3. golden777
    #3 golden777 Guests January 28, 2013 00:43
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    Dimazik does not bother you to take a picture 6 close-up photos? where are all the connections
  4. Dimazik
    #4 Dimazik Guests January 28, 2013 07:52
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    [b] golden777 [/ b], it will not bother me. But what have I to do with it? I am not an author.
  5. PC
    #5 PC Guests May 23, 2013 12:57
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    I also wanted to do such a thing and bought such a thing, but knowing how the scheme is generally different, advise me how to be. Here is a photo
    [center] [img] http://washerhouse.com/3/en/pictures_users/1/21.jpg [/ img] [/ center]
  6. SJWREC
    #6 SJWREC Guests July 22, 2013 10:05
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    Quote: PC
    I also wanted to do such a thing and bought such a thing, but the skill scheme is generally different


    And why is it complicated then, connect the USB power from the PC, select the broadcast frequency on the receiver too.
    There will be no sound, there will only be a buzz from the transmitter. Next, take a needle and gently touch the solders of the capacitors (small gray) as a result, after a while you will stumble upon a very loud sound in one of the receiver columns, then in the same way you will find the second sound channel. Then, to these contacts, give a quiet sound from the PC. And it should work. I myself did this.

    Good luck.
  7. jonny241
    #7 jonny241 Guests August 20, 2013 00:28
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    Well, why the hell, it was necessary to redo something, I would leave it as it is and that's it! I better thought how to put this crap into a netbook
  8. Alexander
    #8 Alexander Guests June 22, 2014 00:01
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    A very good idea. I have long wanted to make myself wireless headphones; now the idea should come true. Only to
    Your circuit needs to add a miniature receiver built directly into the headphones.
  9. RUS
    #9 RUS Guests August 15, 2014 02:08
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    and what is the broadcasting radius?
  10. LM
    #10 LM Guests November 21, 2014 13:04
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    In especially hopeless cases, modulators for cars with a ready-made audio input for a 3.5 mm jack are also sold. inexpensively. But the author is handsome, he solved the problem more radically.
    PS Afftar zhzhot. Your site is interesting, I will read.
  11. Andrew
    #11 Andrew Guests January 19, 2015 17:31
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    very not a bad idea. I want to do it myself. BUT! can you adjust the sound only on the receiver? from a laptop it is necessary to give a signal unchanged ??
  12. Konstantin
    #12 Konstantin Guests March 21, 2015 11:08
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    But isn’t it easier to just buy a bluetooth receiver for 300r, connect it to the music center (unless of course the center has aux function) and watch movies with good sound!?
  13. Alexander
    #13 Alexander Guests February 22, 2016 19:04
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    I don’t know why the city garden with alterations ... In free sale - VHF transmitters with a USB input and a 3.5 mm audio jack input (I bought myself in 2012 - HYUNDAI H-FMT10). True, it is equipped with a jack-jack cable only 0.5 m long, but a cable of a different length is also not a problem ... I bought the adapter “220 Volt - cigarette lighter socket” for it - and that’s all. Now, without wires, I listen to music from a computer on VHF both through a stationary music center and through the phone (if loud sound is not required).

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