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
Ham radio is having a bit of a resurgence these days, likely due to awards programs like Parks on the Air (POTA) and Summits on the Air (SOTA), which encourage …read more Continue reading Super-Portable, Tunable VHF Antenna
[Ben Eadie (VE6SFX)] is at it again with the foil tape, and this time he’s whipped up a stealthy mobile sunroof antenna for the amateur radio operator with the on-the-go …read more Continue reading A Quick and Stealthy Mobile Slot Antenna from Copper Tape
The use of magnetic tape and other removable magnetic media is now on the wane, leading to scarcity in some cases where manufacture has ceased. Is it possible to produce …read more Continue reading Making Magnetic Tape From Scratch
On today’s episode of “Will It Antenna?”, [Ben Eadie (VE6SFX)] designs and tests an antenna made entirely of tape, and spoiler alert — it works pretty well. By way of …read more Continue reading This Packable Ham Radio Antenna is Made from Nothing But Tape
It never fails … you go to use a device that should be fully charged, but its battery has gone flat over time. Such may soon no longer be the case, however, if battery manufacturers simply start using a different type of adhesive tape.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading A simple switch of tape could keep batteries from self-discharging
We’ll beat everyone to the punch: yes, actually building a working Turing machine, especially one that uses a Raspberry Pi, is probably something that would have pushed [Allen Turing]’s buttons, …read more Continue reading TMD-3: Clever Hall Sensor Hack Leads to Better Turing Demo
If someone stops by and asks you to help them make some noisy thing less noisy, you probably wouldn’t reach for a roll of tape. But [The Action Lab] shows …read more Continue reading Tape is Very, Very Quiet
You may think that computer tape memories died out before Rubik’s cubes came in, but IBM and Fujifilm have teamed up to develop a record-breaking new sixth-generation tape storage system that can backup a whopping 50 TB of data.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Tape lives! IBM and Fujifilm release record 50-TB memory tape