For those with SKYPE, a VoIP phone, I have always been frustrated by having to switch from speakers to earphones when I wanted to talk on the phone. I had somehow thought that I needed to make a switch box to do this, and so finally after months of forgetfulness, finally bought the parts to do it.

As I sat there this morning, getting ready to do the project, but not feeling at all motivated to do it, I had an idea. I had purchased a miniature Sterio spliter cord to do part of the project, reasoning that I could cut it up and splice it to the switch with minimal fuss. As I sat there looking at it, I decided to just plug it in to my laptop and then plug both the phones and the speakers,too. It all works perfectly. I am somewhat confused about why I thought that a switch would be nessessary.