This document discusses ways to reuse old technology by connecting it to new devices using simple cables or adapters. It suggests connecting an iPod or MP3 player to vintage stereo equipment using a headphone jack to RCA cable. This allows you to power old boomboxes or home stereos with a small portable music player. The document recommends this as a cheap way to experiment with music and encourages hosting "bring your own music" events using this type of setup to encourage social listening. It promotes reusing existing equipment rather than disposing of it before its full lifespan.

1. Untangle & Listen
My Story of Discovery
Patricia Post,
Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange (CMLE)

2. This session is
deemed “green”

3. Do you want to be any part of this problem?
I don’t!

4. It’s a plug and play world...

5. What if we use new technologies to
power old technologies?
What if we don’t stress out about
wiring things together? What
if….

6. Like what about hooking an I-Touch
to a Rotary Phone

7. Get Connected!
Clarification
This is not a best practice…

8. Get Wired!
Experiment!

9. Do you have any of
these lying around?

10. Do you have
a 1970’s
stereo
system
lounging
around?
Garage Animal

11. Do you own one of
these MP3’s? Others?

12. Have you noticed an
“aux port” on old
Auxiliary Port equipment?
Or, “line in”…that
works too!

13. Best $8 you’ll
ever
spend…

14. $20 Sansa MP3 tethered to an old boom box

15. 1/8” Stereo/Audio Red-White Cable
Power up that lounging
Garage Animal

16. $49 Sansa Clip (8GB) powering 70’s Stereo
Holds 4,000 Songs

17. 1/8” Stereo/Audio Red-White Cable
$7 to $10 investment at Radio Shack

18. Sansa Clip Connected to Home
Theater System. Surround Sound!

19. My New BFF
Altec Lansing iM600

20. Features of my BFF
• Powerful – Best in its class
• Beautiful sound, (still not 70’s stereo)
• Portable, stores flat
• Any MP3 works on it (buy that cable)
• FM radio
• Rechargeable battery (5 hrs of play)
• Wireless remote

21. Host a
Bring Your
Own Music
(BYOM)
Event
• Home
• Lake
• Library
• School
• Any teen events

22. Free people from their ear buds!
Make listening social,
Don’t be too quick to discard the
old,
Re-use what you already have…

23. The End