Pump Your Tunes Through This Waveform Display Headphone Amplifier
Justin Yates, who has a degree in both electrical engineering and computer science, built a headphone amplifier with a waveform display.
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Turn Analog Audio Digital with These Weekend Projects
Convert your bulky vinyl record collection into long-lasting digital files while optimizing the record’s playback curve, using the Vinyl Digitizer Phono Preamp.
Phonograph ring
Luke Jerram, familiar for his earlier works Glass Microbiology and Portrait-Projecting Ring, has now produced Talking Ring , which is essentially a silver Edison cylinder, cut and played back using custom equipment, which records a 20-second message of affection for his partner Shelina. [via Hack a Day]
MAKE 23: Ross Hershberger interview
Ross Hershberger is an audiophile and maker who has contributed two projects to the pages of MAKE: the Econowave Speakers in Volume 20 and Squelette, the Bare-Bones Amplifier in the current issue, Volume 23. Other than being talented and passionate, Ross is a really nice guy. I had the pleasure of meeting him and working […]
Super Class A 30W amplifier
I love ogling these crazed homebrewed audio power amps that people build. This one is based on Jean Hiraga’s 20W Class-A Amplifier, but it’s been tricked out further to become the “Super Class A 30W Amplifier.” Check out those monster caps. Those are six 220000 uF capacitors (1.2 Farads!) and (in the center) that’s a […]
Weekend Project: Styrofoam Plate Speaker
Get surprisingly good sound from disposable picnicware with this easy to make and inexpensive Styrofoam Plate Speaker. Thanks go to José Pino for the original article in Make Magazine. To download Styrofoam Plate Speaker MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the Styrofoam Plate Speaker article MAKE 12 “Styrofoam Plate Speaker” & You […]
Weekend Project: Styrofoam Plate Speaker (PDF)
Get surprisingly good sound from disposable picnicware. From Make Volume 12 by José Pino. PDF
