recycled cell phone project ideas?

[Johnathon Chihonik]

Hi all, I'm a second year Electronic Eng. Technology student, just
getting my feet wet in this amazing science of electronics. Anyways I
found a Nokia 5165 cell phone on the road the other day, its pretty
busted up, LCD toast, front panel and buttons missing etc, but I was
wondering if anyone has any cool project ideas that i could fool
around with using the parts from the phone.

I was thinking that there must be a transmitter and reciever in there
that i could maybe pull out and modify to operate on the frs bands, or
something along those lines. Anyone got anything?


Johnathon Chihonik
remove the <nospam> from my email to get me that way

 

[Jeroen Vriesman]

The battery is nice for a solar powered bicycle led light. (yes I got one
on my bicycle, used the white smd leds from http://www.goldmine-elec.com/
only 50 cents).

end for the rest.. I think it's junk, I did gave my little sister some
earrings made of old electronic stuff, long time ago..

 

[Peter Bennett]

Hi all, I'm a second year Electronic Eng. Technology student, just
getting my feet wet in this amazing science of electronics. Anyways I
found a Nokia 5165 cell phone on the road the other day, its pretty
busted up, LCD toast, front panel and buttons missing etc, but I was
wondering if anyone has any cool project ideas that i could fool
around with using the parts from the phone.

I was thinking that there must be a transmitter and reciever in there
that i could maybe pull out and modify to operate on the frs bands, or
something along those lines. Anyone got anything?

The radio part of the thing will be for 800 MHz and higher, and built
with very tiny parts. It is unlikely you could modify it for the 460
MHz FRS band (and anything used there must be type-approved, so you
couldn't legally use it if you could modify it.)

 

[Johnathon Chihonik]

The radio part of the thing will be for 800 MHz and higher, and built
with very tiny parts. It is unlikely you could modify it for the 460
MHz FRS band (and anything used there must be type-approved, so you
couldn't legally use it if you could modify it.)

what about doing a division by 5 on the reciever end to put it into
the weather satellite range?

(just starting to learn about tuned circuits, filters and other radio
stuff in school so bear with my maybe stupid questions )