hackaday.com - 4/25/2009
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hackaday.com —
[Jeri ellsworth] of fatmanandcircuitgirl.com has made an audio
recorder out of a floppy disk and an old...
tape recorder. She’s able to record 15 seconds of audio directly to floppy disk. In the video after the break, she explains how it ...
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Analog audio recorded on a floppy
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Analog audio recorded on a floppy
Hack a Day —
[Jeri ellsworth] of fatmanandcircuitgirl.com has made an audio recorder out of a floppy disk and an old tape recorder. She’s able to record 15 seconds of audio directly to floppy disk. In the video after the break, she explains how it works, and why you hear the creepy reverb effect. The next step is to run this as a pedal effect for stage ...
Jeri Ellsworth Projects - CD-ROM Cup Holder Heater and Cooler, Floppy Disk Audio Recorder
Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog —
Jeri Ellsworth who is well known for her C-One creation has been working on some crazy projects over at FatMan and Circuit Girl! Hack a Day featured the Floppy Disk Audio Recorder which is a thing of beauty. It can record about a 1/2 second on each track and uses the internal sensor to automatically move the head to the next track after every disk rotation. See that video below. Jeri also has made a crazy CD-ROM Cup Holder Heater and Cooler, unlike my lame joke version, this one uses a peltier device to provide cooling and some microprocessors to provide ...
Video: Recording analog audio to a floppy disk
CrunchGear —
How cool is this? My friends and I have fun tinkering with audio gear every once in a while, but this awesome hack is beyond anything I would have thought up. By taking apart a drive, mating it with a tape recorder, and doing a few other really cool things, this talented hacktress has made 3.5″ floppies capable of holding about 15 seconds of analog audio.
Due to the the way the thing is writing, there’s bleed between the tracks, so you hear stuff from a second behind, a second ahead, etc. The effect is really freaky; she plays “Still Alive” and it’s just recognizable. With something a ...
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