Humongous belt buckles may be out of fashion but then that doesn’t stop fashion unconscious geeks from making the biggest fashion faux pas of the century. Before you completely reject the idea of carrying this ancient style, hear out Casey’s idea for the resurrection.

Casey is so in love with music and obsessed with the idea that he may one day be marooned on an island in some far away galaxy and find himself unable to listen to the soothing tunes of a Cradle of Filth number that he decided the only way to save himself from that very possible situation is to wear his music. And that is where the big belt buckle comes into place. Setting the creative electronic fields of his mind moving, Casey found a way to insert an mp3 player development board into this funky looking golden belt buckle that strangely had the right-sized opening in the middle, almost as though the buckle knew it was destined to host an mp3 player. Well, there you go, guys, you can’t fight fate!

What’s really cool about this creation is that changing tunes requires not the use of finicky fingers but for you to truly bust a move. The on-board accelerometer will change the tune in time to the movement of your swaying hips. I’ll let Casey tell you just how to build your very own DIY belt buckle mp3 player at SparkFun.

Via: Technabob