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What in the world could an accessory for an obsolete audio medium possibly have to do with keeping all your unruly bits and pieces in order? First of all, we’re …read more Continue reading Thrift Store CD Rack Turns Into Small Parts Storage Playground
It’s easy to find a cheap clock at any dollar store that will manage to tell the time, but chances are that the plastic-fantastic construction won’t do you any aesthetic …read more Continue reading Old Clock Transformed Into Mesmerizing Light Display
In the rare case we listen to an audio CD these days, we typically rely on off-the-shelf hardware to decode the 1s and 0s into the dulcet tones of Weird …read more Continue reading Decoding Compact Disc Audio From Scratch
There was a time when electronic engineering students studied the audio CD, for all its real-world examples of error correction and control systems. There’s something to be found in the …read more Continue reading Reading Data From a CD, With a Microscope
CDs are becoming largely obsolete now, thanks to the speed of the internet and the reliability and low costs of other storage media. To help keep all of this plastic …read more Continue reading Scavenging CDs For Flexible Parts
Before it was transformed into an ephemeral stream of ones and zeroes, music used to have a physical form of some kind. From wax cylinders to vinyl discs to tapes …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: 1990s CD Mastering Fit for a King
Before it was transformed into an ephemeral stream of ones and zeroes, music used to have a physical form of some kind. From wax cylinders to vinyl discs to tapes …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: 1990s CD Mastering Fit for a King
There was an odd era at the start of the 1990s when CDs had taken the lead from vinyl in pre-recorded music, but for consumer recordable formats the analogue cassette …read more Continue reading A MiniDisc Optical Head Has A Few Surprises Up Its Sleeve
It’s with sadness that we note the passing at the age of 94 of the long-time Phillips engineer Lou Ottens, who is best known as the originator of the Compact …read more Continue reading RIP Lou Ottens, Developer Of The Compact Cassette And More
Here at Hackaday, we pride ourselves on bringing you the freshest of hacks, preferably as soon as we find out about them. Thanks to the sheer volume of cool hacks out there, though, we do miss one occasionally, like this e-waste horizontal CNC mill that we just found out about. …read more
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