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lcamtuf   2d ago

Audio toy with a hand crank. I kinda wanted to recreate the experience of "scrubbing" analog audio on a turntable or a tape recorder.

Updated article (outlining another design first): https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/mcu-land-part-4-building-an-audio

Source code: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/soft/embedded/playback2.tgz

lcamtuf   3d ago
nothacking3d ago
A Sony FD-30A with it's 4.5cm diagonal "lolipop" CRT.

Whole unit is roughly the size of a modern cell phone, although quite a bit thicker.
lcamtuf   Mar 25
Look, the 1950s just hit different
lcamtuf   Mar 23

Techies: with IPv6, we'll never run out of addresses!

Also techies:

lcamtuf   Mar 22
nothackingMar 22
Text drawing with my AVR video transmitter:
lcamtuf   Mar 22
hackadayMar 22

Analog Video From an 8-Bit Microcontroller

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/analog-video-from-an-8-bit-microcontroller/

Analog Video From An 8-Bit Microcontroller

Although the CRT has largely disappeared from our everyday lives, there was a decades-long timeframe when this was effectively the only display available. It’s an analog display for an analog…

Hackaday
lcamtuf   Mar 19
Conway's Game of Life, in real life: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/conway
Conway's Game of Life, in real life

When life gives you switches...

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lcamtuf   Mar 17
Reminder: this is what smartphones took from you
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indeed