<p>So I made it to Radio Shack and bought some jacks and plugs and switches. The jacks and plugs are standard 1/8&#8243; deallies. Exactly like yer newfangled Walkman has. Here&#8217;s how they came out:</p>
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<p>I was more concerned with the switch, and basically took a gamble. I bought a <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2049718&amp;cp');" target="_blank"  href="http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2049718&amp;cp">Submini Lever Switch</a>, a <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2049719&amp;cp');" target="_blank"  href="http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2049719&amp;cp">Roller Lever Switch</a>, and a <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062539&amp;cp');" target="_blank"  href="http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062539&amp;cp">pack of 4 Momentary?Pushbutton Switches</a>.</p>
<p>For the first prototype, I slapped together some trim I had laying around, cardboard from the day&#8217;s <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.tanga.com/');"  href="http://www.tanga.com/">Tanga</a> shipment, and the Roller Lever Switch. I made a rough cavity in the trim for the switch to sit in, then taped it all together. Ghetto fabulous.</p>{"id":4,"date":"2007-07-31T01:24:35","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T06:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2007-08-06T22:10:03","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T03:10:03","slug":"stub-hero-phase-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Stub Hero: Phase II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I made it to Radio Shack and bought some jacks and plugs and switches. The jacks and plugs are standard 1\/8&#8243; deallies. Exactly like yer newfangled Walkman has. Here&#8217;s how they came out:<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bunkerguts\/958423643\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bunkerguts\/958423643\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1218\/958423643_563d51924d.jpg\" alt=\"cleanedupjacks\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was more concerned with the switch, and basically took a gamble. I bought a <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.radioshack.com\/product\/index.jsp?productId=2049718&amp;cp');\" target=\"_blank\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.radioshack.com\/product\/index.jsp?productId=2049718&amp;cp\">Submini Lever Switch<\/a>, a <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.radioshack.com\/product\/index.jsp?productId=2049719&amp;cp');\" target=\"_blank\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.radioshack.com\/product\/index.jsp?productId=2049719&amp;cp\">Roller Lever Switch<\/a>, and a <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.radioshack.com\/product\/index.jsp?productId=2062539&amp;cp');\" target=\"_blank\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.radioshack.com\/product\/index.jsp?productId=2062539&amp;cp\">pack of 4 Momentary?Pushbutton Switches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the first prototype, I slapped together some trim I had laying around, cardboard from the day&#8217;s <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.tanga.com\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.tanga.com\/\">Tanga<\/a> shipment, and the Roller Lever Switch. I made a rough cavity in the trim for the switch to sit in, then taped it all together. Ghetto fabulous.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}