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This is a steam-powered record player; awesome. But wait, that's not all. Watch the video after the break for about two and a half minutes and you'll realize that it's also a Rickroll. No, you're not getting baited into clicking through to Rick Astley's music video, the LP that's playing on the turntable is a copy of "Never Gonna Give You Up"; all kinds of awesome. This all started with a steam … [Read more...]
Start off with a beat, wood sticks on cigar boxes will do. Add some chimes as accent, a Farfisa organ or record player for a voice, several other instruments for harmony and dissonance, and you're still just on the tip of the iceberg for understanding Cybraphon. Not only is this antique wardrobe completely autonomous, playing music with over 60 robotic instruments, its song are based on the … [Read more...]
Cardboard record player [Yen] tipped us off about this cardboard record player. It's a marketing tool that you receive in the mail. Inside the cardboard packaging is a record and the packaging itself can be folded into a player. Hackable handheld The NanoNote is a tiny handheld housing a lot of power for a small price. It ships running openWRT and sports a full keyboard, 336MHz … [Read more...]
At first glance we thought this record player had been modified to serve as a persistence of vision device. The device looks very much like an unmodified turntable but it has four tracks worth of display space in it. The messages are actually glowing and don't depend on a POV effect. Instead, the table has been coated with phosphorescent paint that will glow after being exposed to bright light. … [Read more...]
It's all fine and dandy to have a turntable that sounds great, but [Mike] wanted one that looks great too. He build the transparent record player above and loved it for a little while. When his interest in it waned he built another, then several more. They all have some element of transparency to them, and each is a work of art. Makes us wonder how often he needs to dust his house to keep them … [Read more...]
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