Good, cheap electret inserts work fine - you do need to provide some power, but I expect you're making powered circuits anyway. Check out hobbies/electronics magazines/websites.
Expect some tens of millivolts from normal voice levals.
The purpose of having a microphone with a CD player is mostly used for karaoke as the CD player enables to be played while one can sing into the microphone.
The purpose of Magic Microphone is to have fun while singing various songs alone or in a group. It can be used to turn one's living room into a Karaoke bar.
Breadboard
It is used to connect microphone to microphone preamplifiers.
A microphone dead cat is used in outdoor audio recording to reduce wind noise and improve the quality of the recorded sound by blocking out unwanted wind interference.
The noun 'microphone' is a common noun, a general word for any device used to convert sound energy into electrical energy for the purpose of transmitting or recording sound.A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing; for example, the Shure SM57 Dynamic Microphone or the Neumann U87 Ai Shockmount Set Z Microphone.
Breadboard radios hark back to the very early days of radio technology, when enthusiasts constructed their own primitive radio devices using household supplies such as breadboards, nails and copper wiring. Wooden breadboards, which were used to protect kitchen counters while slicing bread etc, provided the base for breadboard radios. Components were nailed directly into the board surfaces.
A MICRO-phone is an extremely small phone used for communications between two individuals. A: Some microphones are not extremely small but rather large!! the use is to provide a signal to an amplifier whereby the microphone pickup can be listen to.
Yes it can be used as a unidirectional microphone if needed.
The best microphone from Audio Technia would depend on how it will be used. For example will it be a microphone for a computer or will it be used to sing and record songs with.
The cardioid or unidirectional microphone is the most common type of microphone pickup pattern. It is used everywhere, from voice to instruments.
It's called a "protoboard" or "breadboard".