To follow the guide, all you need is a Bluetooth headset, stereo jack, soldering iron, hot glue gun and a thin wire. It’s a simple, nine-step process that only requires you to pop open the casing of your headset and solder a couple wires. His tutorial guides you through a mono installation, but if you have a stereo headset the difference should only be a single wire.
There are commercially available audio dongles that do the same thing, but if you’re looking for a way to do it yourself on the cheap, you can find the full tutorial over a Instructables.
Bluetooth Headset Hack [Instructables]
Hughhh
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 8:25 AMThis is cool. I got a BT dongle with a mobile phone a few years ago, and I’m not enough of a douchebag to actually use it with my phone. I might just use this hack to play tunes from my iPod Touch to the car stereo.
Thanks for the idea! :)
Mike
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 10:04 AMNice. For those who aren’t so handy, where can you buy something like this ready made? can’t find one on ebay.
Stove
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 11:25 AMThere are a few models around. I know Belkin makes a “Bluetooth Music Receiver” and RIM has their “Remote Stereo Gateway”. They’re a bit pricier than a cheap bluetooth headset, but there might be budget-brand equivalents I don’t know about.
Mike
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 4:18 PMthanks
Mike Brown
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 1:46 PMMost bluetooth headsets don’t support the A2DP audio streaming profile, so it will not only be mono but a very low bitrate.
Might be useful if you want to build a bluetooth speakerphone, but will be pretty bad for music.
E.E.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 5:31 PMNokia bluetooth, stereo headsets go for about $30 on eBay.
Long battery life and no problem streaming.
E.E.
Road King
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 8:00 PMI tried this with a cheep headset. it had the wires for stereo but the sound quality was appalling
Brinda
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 1:59 AM“2 yrs of rigorous coding (evenings and weekends), using only php + mysql + html + javascript + jquery + lot of brains + lot of meditation + lot of patience + lot of love = Mockuptiger”
B8Two
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 8:25 AM“if you’re looking for a way to do it yourself on the cheap”
N6 Bluetooth V2.1 Handsfree Headset ~$15 delivered;
http://goo.gl/PtwNj
Nuf Said.