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Turning 8-Track Player Into A Walkman

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Following time backward, for portable music we’ve had iPods, CDs, and cassette tapes which we played using small Walkmans around the size of a cigarette box. And for a brief time before that, in the 1960s and 1970s, we had 8-track tapes. These were magnetic tapes housed in cases around the size of a large slice of bread. Car dashboards housed players, and they also came in a carry-around format like the one [Todd Harrison] recently bought at a Hamfest for $5 and made more portable by machining clips for a strap and adding a headphone jack.

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Making A Headphone Amp Perform New Tricks

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Hands up if you’ve had the misfortune to work in an office with a fondness for following the latest fads. Paperless office, how long did that last? Or moving from physical telephones to a flaky VOIP application on your Windows computer, that’s sure to be a resounding success! We’ve all been there at some point, haven’t we?

[Joshua Wise] found himself in that unenviable situation of the VOIP app move, and since he is a habitual headphone music listener the prospect of wearing his company-supplied headset was not appealing. His solution was to take his HeadRoom BitHead amplifier …read more

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Accenture and Heaphones – Startup Security Weekly #66

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Paul and Michael talk about headphones, Accenture, and the startup companies that influence the security industry. Full Show NotesVisit http://securityweekly.com/category/ssw for all the latest episodes!
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ShieldX, Menlo, Gemalto, and Accenture – Startup Security Weekly #66

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In the news, the best way to manage risk, creating defining moments for your customers, Upstream raised $9 million, ShieldX, Menlo, Atos offers to buy Gemalto, and the implosion of early-stage VC funding that no one is talking about. All that and more,… Continue reading ShieldX, Menlo, Gemalto, and Accenture – Startup Security Weekly #66→

Rock Out With The Nod Bang

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In our years here on Hackaday, we’ve seen our fair share of musical hacks. They even have their own category! (Pro Tip – you can find it under the drop down menu in the Categories section). But this one takes the cake. [Andrew Lee] is a student at New York University who had a task of creating a project for his physical computing class. In about 60 days time; he went from dinner napkin sketch to working project. The project is quite interesting – he’s made an instrument that plays music as you move your head.

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Space Technology and Audio Tape to Store Art

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[Blaine Murphy] has set out to store an archive of visual art on cassette tape. To do so he encodes images via Slow-Scan Television (SSTV), an analogue technology from the late 50s which encodes images in for radio transmission. If you are thinking ‘space race’ you are spot on, the first images of the far side of the moon reached us via SSTV and were transmitted by the soviet Luna 3 spacecraft.

Encoding images with 5os technology is only one part of this ongoing project. Storage and playback are handled by a 90s tape deck and the display unit is …read more

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