Collaborate Disseminate
In the streaming era, few of us think about MP3s on a day to day basis anymore. Our music collection is managed by warring executives in streaming companies from far-off …read more Continue reading Clay Pot MP3 Player Whipped Up With The Freedom-K64F
MQA is an audio format that claims to use a unique “origami” algorithm, promising better quality and more musicality than other formats. At times, it’s been claimed to be a …read more Continue reading Mythbusting Tidal’s MQA Format – How Does It Measure Up?
MQA is an audio format that claims to use a unique “origami” algorithm, promising better quality and more musicality than other formats. At times, it’s been claimed to be a …read more Continue reading Mythbusting Tidal’s MQA Format – How Does It Measure Up?
When Google halted production of the Chromecast Audio at the start of 2019, there was a (now silent) outcry. Fans of the device loved the single purpose audio streaming dongle …read more Continue reading You Otter Be Able to Stream that Audio: Open Hardware Eclipses Chromecast Audio
Carbohydrate foams derived from dead trees are not the first material that springs to mind when considering building audio equipment. But really, there’s no reason not to explore new materials …read more Continue reading Wooden You Love to Build a Ribbon Microphone?
Once a discarded relic, over the years the humble vacuum tube has been rehabilitated in the arena of specialist audio. There are plenty of tube amplifiers now being manufactured, with a popular choice being headphone amplifiers that use a tube …read more
For many commercial broadcast radio has lost its luster, leaving an unknowable number of perfectly serviceable AM/FM radios to lie dormant. But they don’t have to. As [Dan Gebhardt] shows in his recent hack, integrating a Bluetooth audio receiver into …read more
While repairing his Neato Botvac D85, [elad] noticed the little fellow was packing a real speaker and not just a piezo buzzer. Thinking this was a bit overkill just for the occasional beep and bloop, he decided to round things …read more
Continue reading Modded Robot Vacuum Can Whistle While it Works
Even those critical of Apple as a company have to admit that they were really onto something with the iPod. The click wheel was a brilliant input device, and the simplicity of the gadget’s user interface made it easy to …read more
Continue reading Raspberry Pi Zero Powers Spotify Streaming iPod
In an age of streaming media it’s easy to forget the audio CD, but they still remain as a physical format from the days when the “Play” button was not yet the “Pay” button. A CD player may no longer be the prized possession it once was, but it’s still …read more
Continue reading An Arduino And A CD-ROM Drive Makes A CD Player