Collaborate Disseminate
Back in the 1990s, you could get a tape player shaped like a can of Coca Cola. [Simon the Magpie] scored one of these decks and decided to turn it …read more Continue reading Building a Tape Echo In A Coke Can Tape Player That Doesn’t Really Work
The cassette is one of the coolest music formats ever, in that you could chuck them about with abandon and they’d usually still work. [Chris Borge] recently decided to see …read more Continue reading 3D Printing a Cassette Is Good Retro Fun
Call us crazy, but music was a whole lot more fun when it was on physical media. Or perhaps just easier to use, especially in the car. Whether your particular …read more Continue reading Make Your Music Simpler With the User-Unfriendliest Cassette Deck Ever
During the 1980s, a moral panic swept across the landscape with the mistaken belief that there were Satanic messages hidden in various games, books, and music that at any moment …read more Continue reading Documenting Real Hidden Messages in Music
If you’ve ever looked into how artists from the 1960s made their music, you’ll learn about the many inventive ways in which the tape recorder enabled new effects. One of …read more Continue reading A Tape Echo For Anyone
In the three or four decades since storing programs on audio cassettes has been relevant, a lot of irreplaceable personal computing history has been lost to the ravages of time …read more Continue reading Persistence Pays in TI-99/4A Cassette Tape Data Recovery
The benefit of 3D printers is that they have made it relatively easy to reproduce just about any little plastic thing you might happen to break. If you’re one of …read more Continue reading Mod, Repair and Maintain Your Cassette Tapes With 3D Printed Parts
While packing merch for a recent gig, I realised I had the opportunity to do something a little fun. I’d released an album on tape, and spent a little extra …read more Continue reading Wear Your Fave Cassette Tapes as a Necklace With This 3D Printed Adapter
It’s been a long time since computer hobbyists stored their programs and data on cassette tapes. But because floppy drives were expensive peripherals and hard drives were still a long …read more Continue reading A Cassette Interface for a 6502 Breadboard Computer, Kansas City-Style
When viewed from the far future, the early years of the 21st century will probably be seen as the end of a short era in human technological development. In the …read more Continue reading The End of the Electromechanical Era