This is cool. Now you can play the new Cheap Trick album, The Late, on 8 Track!
This is an admittedly mad project to see what might have happened if Sony had invented the Walkman earlier than they did – and made it so it took 8 track tape cartridges (which came before cassette tapes were invented).
In other words, can I make a personal 8 track player with just headphones in the style of a Walkman? How small can I make it? Bear in mind it needs quite a bit of power to move the tape loop around inside the cartridge.
via HOWTO make an 8-track cassette walkman – Boing Boing.
