Quick cheap cassette adapter
posted Oct 24th 2008 10:04am by Caleb Kraftfiled under: classic hacks, digital audio hacks
[Dane] sent us this super quick tape adapter project. Yes, we know we can go buy one of these for pretty cheap and it will probably sound much better, but really, wouldn’t it be cool to make one? Using a headphone adapter, a couple resisters, some wire, and an old cassette tape, [Dane] shows us how easy it is to build one of our own. You are basically pushing the signal from the headphones through a coil that is up against the tape read head. This is a perfect project to teach beginners about magnetic fields.
[Dane] has sent in some stuff before. You may recall his PWM adio generation with an AVR post several months ago.
