Adnan Aga, Addison Worthington

Intro

I wanted the next part of my physical journey here at ITP to make use of a tape player! I found one on Amazon and picked it up.

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The Byron Statics tape player/recorder shipped over and we decided to tinker with it.

Look at what we saw when we opened it up! The tape was used presumably to stop the wires from coming loose / getting disconnected from the main circuit board.

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It seemed like an easy way for us to mess with the player itself was to play with the speed of the motors. We desoldered the cables from the board as shown below from M0+ and M0- and then connected it up to our own circuit.

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By adjusting a potentiometer connected to our motor wires, we were able to dynamically change the speed of the tape to fun results! It sounded much more natural to adjust the sound via the potentiometer vs changing the speed of a sound digitally on a computer.


BRAINSTORM

The hardest part of any of my projects here at ITP is what I want to make with the wacky things I want to buy.

On another work stream, I decided to start playing around with Touchdesigner to do an analysis on our audio signal coming in from the player

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The Build

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We wanted to lasercut an enclosure that would be able to house not just the tape player but also all the electronics so that we would just have 2 cables coming out of it.