Posted by Jim 2.0 | tagged: doorbell, DIY, digital, mp3, music

(Image: popsci.com)

...Or "dingtones," as Popular Science author Dave Prochnow calls the personalized sounds that echo through your home after doing this cool custom hack.

In a nutshell, AFTER the all-important step of disconnecting the power, you connect your doorbell's wires to the inside of your mp3 player's play button, and rig the player and a small speaker to work on electrical power. Pick a song on your mp3 player, and you'll hear it whenever someone rings your doorbell.

This project takes a decent amount of electrical know-how already, but if you want to get really 2.0 about it, you can even rig up a fingerprint reader (pictured) and play a different song for each one of your friends! (Full instructions at popsci.com)

Thanks to bvosrich for pointing out this cool project on the discussion board, in What would you like to see in Season 2? Got any other projects or ideas you think the Techno-Gurus should incorporate into their new high-tech makeovers? Join the discussion board and let us know!

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