20 Sculptures That Upcycle Your ‘Cycle
Bikes on walls, stools made out of bike parts, pyramids, domes, fences, and more! There’s a lot of arty ways to give a bike a second life.
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Listen to This Musician Scratch Cassette Tapes Like Vinyl
You’ve never heard cassette tapes play music like this before.
Spinning Cassette Tape
Twitter user miquraffreshia uploaded this image of cassette tape being spun into yarn.
Bringing old cassettes back from the dead
Reader Craig Smith sent me an email about this recent little fix he discovered for time-worn cassettes: I was in my basement shop when I found a box of cassette tapes that were the soundtrack to my youth. Since the seldom-used tape deck was removed from the upstairs entertainment center, I set it up in […]
How-To: Make an audio cassette tape loop
Instructables author (and Community Manager) Randy Sarafan writes: Theoretically it sounds really easy; you can make a tape loop by taping the ends of a short piece of magnetic ribbon together and sticking it back inside the cassette tape. However, if you ever actually tried to do this, you will soon realize that it is […]
Cassette player reborn as spring reverb
From the MAKE Flickr pool Leadtowill posted this detail shot of a rather excellent mod/conversion – This was a cassette radio. I removed the motor etc and added an input to the amp section of the circuit, mounted a spring and converted the speaker to a driver with a knife – the result is a […]
TapeArt
Image from Iri5 on Flickr Via WebUrbanist In this series I showcase a number of portraits of musicians made out of recycled cassette tape with original cassette. Also included are portraits made from old film and reels. The idea comes from a philosopher’s (Ryle) description of how your spirit lives in your body. I imagine […]
