Thursday, October 23, 2014

Cassette deck hacked to play and control Spotify music


The $35 Raspberry Pi is the low-end computing system that launched a thousand projects, including a beet-powered Beetbox and this Spotify-compatible cassette player. CNET writes that Matt Brailsford's nostalgic masterpiece was inspired by the iRecorder, which is an iPhone speaker shaped like the old-fashioned tape machine.


In an interview with CNET, Brailsford explains that the Raspberry Pi used in his device runs a version of MusicBox, and a custom module for identifying input and reading NFC tags. What's most charming about his creation is that you can actually load a cassette into the player. Once you've done so, the in-built software will scan for an NFC tag located in the cassette and then look for a matching playlist, before...


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