An Automated Turntable Packed with Modern Tech
There is something about creating a mash-up of new and old technologies that makers just can't resist. Maybe it’s the opportunity to blend powerful, modern digital systems with the buttons, knobs, and switches of vintage hardware that you can get your hands on. Or it could just be nostalgia making classic equipment look more appealing in retrospect.
Whatever the reason, people make some really impressive things, such as this retro computer stuffed with modern hardware and this updated take on a vintage Atari personal computer. A software engineer named Patrick Nelson has also caught the bug for creating modern-retro mash-ups and is currently building a fully automatic turntable called the Statimatic STM-01. It may play vinyl records, but the hardware automating it hadn’t even been imagined when analog was king.
The prototype circuit (📷: Patrick Nelson)
At the center of the project is a Teensy 4.1 microcontroller coordinating...
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