CBN | 008

June 27, 2005

Now that its pretty much ready to be played I hooked it up to play along side my NanoLoop using recordings of things I have captured from the real space.

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CBN | 007

In order to get the audio out [which is key really] i am for now using the headphone jack but am running it out to some mounted phono line out plugs [partially cause radio shack had them and partially cause later i might need defined stereo channels in close quarters].

I also made more progress on the mounting front getting the battery supply secured along with the rheostat and this kickin huge knob I found for it.

Bonus #4 of rheostat over potentiometer: cool giant knob.

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CBN | 006

June 26, 2005

Tonight I started mounting things down so I could get rolling on playing with this thing. Getting the cassette player to hold still but remain accessable is becoming a challenge. After I get this one ruffed out I need to get another one going and try to remove the cuts full from the casing.

RE:Note CBN | 003
25 ohm rheostat working much better than potentiameter. more sensative and covers a larger range of resistance that has affect on motor. One odd thing is that it seems to not start the motor until around 25% of turn but then once it starts I can slow down significantly. maybe this is just a characteristic of rheostats. It feels like there is alot more friction inside than the potentiometer. Out come to be deicided but for now, working very well.

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CBN | 005

June 25, 2005

Once the cassette player was opened up I was able move the belt that drives the wheel from the original to the variable speed set up. The wrench: One thing I hadn't really thought of but that makes perfect sense is that the one thing a motor wants to do more than anything is spin in the opposite direction. I'll have to mount it... eventually.

I created my first shot at a cassette based tape loop. It works pretty well but the seam is a little clitchy but the harmonica sounds fun. [might be clitchy/good tho]

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CBN | 004

A good test cassette is a requirement for this since every time I change something or add something I need to make sure that it will still play a cassette.

I was able to take the cassette player apart [as apposed to having to break it apart]

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CBN | 003

June 24, 2005

Once the motor is spinning, the speed at which it spins needs to be controlable. My guess was right, limiting the amount of V to it will adjust its speed.

insert : potentiometer

Note: need to find different potententiometer(?). speed = 0 until about 90% of turn. Need more range of resistance to equate to juice needed for motor to move.

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CBN | 002

Maybe I should have lead with this, but I have no idea what I am doing when it comes to this soert of thing. That being said, I needed to get a motor spinning before I can control how it spins. Luckily, hooking this little motor up to these C batteries worked. I am very excited about this fact. So much so, I just let it run for like 2 minutes.

I think the motor is spinning fast enough to move a cassette. This should werk way better than trying to take apart the BMW RC car i bought as a back up plan. Looks like that one goes to the puppy.

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CBN | 001

I stumbled onto this dictation cassette recorder / player at the thrift store a week or so ago and it gave me this idea that I could easily make a little device that controls the playback speed of a cassette tape and would allow me to basically make my own insturment which has an output based on the audio contents of the cassette.

But first I had to buy some pieces.

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