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Very neat. I was thinking you might need to scale it up a smidge.Icky wrote: 29 Mar 2022 11:54 A bit of fettling and its almost in a shape to print a first try. I may have to scale up the whole cassette body by a fractional amount to make it fit.
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Yeah - I don't know why I get myself into these situations where I end up creating more projects. Well I sort of do for this one. It was an attempt to stop me procrastinating on getting the Giant Panda printer up and running since the move. I thought if I could use this as an excuse it would then move me towards finishing off the STFM case prototypes.rubber_jonnie wrote: 29 Mar 2022 11:57 Very neat. I was thinking you might need to scale it up a smidge.
Makes sense :)Icky wrote: 29 Mar 2022 13:39Yeah - I don't know why I get myself into these situations where I end up creating more projects. Well I sort of do for this one. It was an attempt to stop me procrastinating on getting the Giant Panda printer up and running since the move. I thought if I could use this as an excuse it would then move me towards finishing off the STFM case prototypes.rubber_jonnie wrote: 29 Mar 2022 11:57 Very neat. I was thinking you might need to scale it up a smidge.
You made me remember that when I was younger, there were cassette devices that had a 3.5mm plug hanging off them. You popped them in your cassette and it allowed you to play portable devices like CDs through the cassette system on your car.stephen_usher wrote: 29 Mar 2022 13:47 Now, if there was a version with a head which could produce the magnetic would produce and only play as the capastan rotated, fitting as a real cassette, that would be excellent. The full virtual cassette experience.
That's exactly what I was thinking of :)Icky wrote: 29 Mar 2022 14:06 I remember those @rubber_jonnie, like the pic below, I had thought about those but would still need a tape deck, would work well in the integrated old computers like the Spectrum +2 and CPC464. My project was to just have a retro compact cassette looking device that is the TZXDuino inside so the tape basically plugs into the retro computer. In hind sight I could have printed an old retro cassette deck or gutted a non-working one.