wow! thank you, I thought I got it nearly 100% wrong, I had no ideal I was on the right track!!! But are you sure it's right? Because I just looked at the schematic I just guessed out it should go, also the transistor the middle pin has nothing connected to it, should I have left it like that? So we need a power source, normally I would plug this into a sound card on the computer but I know if I do that then I don't even need this entire amplifier because the computer will do the job of the amplifier, so I wanted this to be portable and I was thinking of plugging it into a small audio recorder that I got from radio shack as a Christmas present. I already took it apart, it saves audio files to the memory chip on the device and I just plug this recorder in the computer to get the .wav file off it and I put that .wav file into a piece of software I found online that translates the .wav file into readable track 1 2 or 3 format. I set the device to read track 1 because that seems to be where our student information is stored, I got partial reads of my ID but it doesn't work right I think because the signal is not strong enough without this amp.
So can this audio recorder that uses a lethium ion battery work to power the amp? I see on the circuit board where the little audio recording box is, is it ok for me to remove that box with the soldering iron and then just stick the positive and negative wires on the board? Because there is no plug for the jack to go in the recorder. If this recorder wont work as a power source, can we add a lethium ion battery to it? I have some old phone batteries that still work good. Please let me know, thank you for your help!!! I'm excited!!
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Just to make sure you know, I did not actually wire my schematic yet, those pictures are of other peoples work, my drawing is: myscheme.jpg and it's my interpretation of how to wire the schematic. I'm trying to copy what I seen in the other pictures.