Thriftwicker Audio Society – THE LEGEND OF DUSTY BRAINSWEATER
#Electronic #ambient #cerebral #experimental #hauntology #lofi #microcassette #plunderphonics #soundscape #tape #trackermusic #wickeresque #Portland
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https://thriftwickeraudiosociety.bandcamp.com/album/the-legend-of-dusty-brainsweater
#Microcassette
Conversaciones con mi gata grabada en microcassette 😅
Grabadora Microcassette Aiwa TP-M920
Hoy, autoregalo por mis 49 tacos ya.. Se me va la vida sin darme cuenta.
Habiendo tanta cosa, me pillé esta grabadora de microcassettes que encontré por 15€ (aquí en la foto junto a una cinta de cassette normal) no entra ni un álbum en estas cintas pero va a ser divertido experimentar 😅
Aiwa TP-M920
Anyone want one of these spiffy #retro #microcassette #Olympus PearlCorder transcriber cassette players, in box, with foot controller? They go for about $300 on eBay and about $225 on the used office equipment sites.
Thriftwicker Audio Society – SHE WHO EXISTS
#BerlinSchool #Electronic #ambient #cassette #experimental #hauntology #microcassette #plunderphonics #soundscape #tangerinedream #Portland
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https://thriftwickeraudiosociety.bandcamp.com/album/she-who-exists
Does anyone have a #microcassette player for an archival project I’m trying to do? I’d be happy to buy(at a reasonable price) or borrow and return it to you after I digitized the tapes.
Thriftwicker Audio Society – VOLUME X - THE LEGEND OF DUSTY BRAINSWEATER
#Electronic #ambient #cerebral #experimental #hauntology #lofi #microcassette #plunderphonics #soundscape #tape #trackermusic #wickeresque #Portland
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https://thriftwickeraudiosociety.bandcamp.com/album/volume-x-the-legend-of-dusty-brainsweater
Two years ago, I was pulling out the few remaining wisps of hair I had - respooling tape, fixing kit, swearing - a lot.
Lining up the next round now… must be bonkers
#ReelToReel
#RCASoundTapeCartridge
#DCC
#8Track
#Elcaset
#DVDRAM
#CD
#DTRS
#CraftTape
#MicroSD
#SonyNT
#Betamax
#ADAT
#Cassette
#REVDisk
#DAT
#MiniDisc
#ZIPDisk
#MicroCassette
#Vinyl
Modern Demo for a Casio PB-700 Pocket Computer Plotter https://hackaday.com/2023/08/13/modern-demo-for-a-casio-pb-700-pocket-computer-plotter/ #Retrocomputing #microcassette #Midjourney #pocketpc #plotter #pb-700 #casio
Modern Demo for a Casio PB-700 Pocket Computer Plotter
[Fred] has a Casio PB-700 pocket calculator / computer, complete with the companion docking station featuring a four-color pen plotter, model FA-10, and a microcassette tape recorder, model CM-1. He really wanted to see what this plotter could do, but there were no demos that he could find. So despite only having one working pen, [Fred] took matters into his own hands and proceeded to make his own.
What if I made a program where I type what I want to draw and the PB-700 just draws it?
Penguin from Penguindrum eating Popcorn
[Fred] succeeds, shoehorning several sub-projects into a single convoluted work flow: request an image from the PB-700 and after a long pause the plot emerges. The cute microcassette recorder is too much of a hassle, so he emulates the audio interface on a PC using a utility called casutil that reads and writes .wav files in PB-700 format. Much of his effort is spent figuring out how to request an image from Midjourney without being banned, but eventually comes up with a workable but shaky solution. The last steps are to convert the image into a line drawing, and then wrap up all those X-Y coordinates into a Basic program and send it back down to the PB-700 for plotting.
You can read more details in the PloTTY GitHub repository. There were several of these pocket computers with plotters coming out of Japan in the 1980s. In addition to this Casio, the Radio Shack TRS-80 PC-1 and PC-2 come to mind, which were re-branded versions of the Sharp PC-1211 and PC-1500 models. We wrote about them last year. This author had a PC-2 in 1985 and used it to plot antenna patterns at his desk, bypassing the IT department's red tape. Have you ever used any of these pocket plotters? If so, let us know in the comments below. Thanks to [Altomare] for send us the tip.
#retrocomputing #casio #microcassette #midjourney #pb700 #plotter #pocketpc
Just exploring, recording some stuff to tape.
#4Track #Tascam #Cassette #Microcassette #ModularSynth #Moog #Mother32 #MoogerFooger #Morphagene #Synthesizers #Samples #KomaFieldKit #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicMusic #Video
https://youtu.be/YY3TVhCg4vw
Microcassette 🤩
No one uses this - but hard to trash ☺️
#Cassette #MicroCassette #CassetteTape #MiniCassette #Tape #ThingOfThePast #Past
@sl007
Danke für die schnelle Antwort.
#Diktiergerät #Microcassette
Audio Tape Interface Revives Microcassettes as Storage Medium
In the early 1980s cassette tapes were the standard storage medium for home computer users; readers of a certain age will remember fiddling with audio jacks, tape counters and signal levels, then waiting for several minutes while a program (hopefully) loaded correctly. While most people happily upgraded to much more reliable floppy disks, [Zack Nelson] decided to go back in time and add a suitably classic storage medium to a retrocomputing project, in the form of a cassette interface. The cassette player he had available was a Pearlcorder L400, which uses the smaller microcassette instead of the familiar audio tapes used in your Walkman or boombox.
[Zack] designed the entire thing from the ground up: first he decided to use differential Manchester encoding, which provides immunity against common disturbances like speed variations (which cause wow and flutter). The data is encoded in the frequency range from 1 kHz to 2 kHz, which suits the bandwidth of the cassette player. Next, he designed the interface between the computer and the tape recorder; built from an op-amp and a comparator with a handful of discrete components, it filters the incoming signal and clips it to provide a clean digital signal to be read out directly by the computer.
The system is demonstrated by hooking it up to an Arduino Nano, which reads out the data stream at about 3000 baud. The noise it makes should bring back memories to anyone brought up with the "PRESS PLAY ON TAPE" message; if it inspires you to make your own, we're happy to report that full schematics and source code are available. [Zack] is not the first one to make his own cassette interface; we've seen a somewhat more complicated analog design before, as well as one based on an FPGA.
Project Null's Zvenigorod toy piano through microcassette and pedals:
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