Collaborate Disseminate
The early 2000s were the halcyon days of physical media. While not as svelte as MP3 players became, why are those early 2000s machines smaller than all the new models …read more Continue reading Why Are Cassette and CD Players So Big Now?
Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the …read more Continue reading Cassette Tape Plays MP3s
Cars have had DRM-like measures for longer than you might think. Go back to the 1990s, and coded cassette decks were a common way to stop thieves being able to …read more Continue reading Building A Cassette Deck Controller To Save a Locked Out Car Stereo
If you want to read something from magnetic tape, you need a tape head, right? Or you could do like [Igor Brichkov] and make your own. It looks surprisingly simple. …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Tape Recorder/Player
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
There seem to be two schools of thought when it comes to picking an enclosure for your cyberdeck project: you either repurpose the carcass of some commercially produced gadget, or …read more Continue reading 2023 Cyberdeck Challenge: CyberTapeDeck
Back in the early days of the home computer revolution, data was commonly saved on tape. Even better, those tapes would make an almighty racket if you played them on …read more Continue reading Simple Universal Modem Helps Save and Load Data From Tape
The cool thing about magnetic tape is that by varying the speed at which you play it back, you can vary the pitch of the output. [Issac] decided to take …read more Continue reading Pitch Sequencer Turns Tascam Tape Deck Into Instrument
In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording …read more Continue reading Know Audio: Mixtapes, Tape Loops, And Razor Blades