tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136662620368747525.post7309528455685376728..comments2013-07-01T19:16:32.598-07:00Comments on Idea Ghetto: Ode to the Casette TapeIdea Ghettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09729047367005219428noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136662620368747525.post-7451618479825397772012-05-03T10:19:26.936-07:002012-05-03T10:19:26.936-07:00Since the first moment I saw this, it begged me to...Since the first moment I saw this, it begged me to make it move. It just makes sense, cassette tapes imply movement. In my mind's eye I see the wall of cassette tapes glued to the back of a sheet of plexiglass as they are now, but I also see another sheet of plexiglass behind them, with a hole through both sheets lined up with one of the gear holes of eaach cassette - and a geared shaft through all layers. That's the easy part. Where it gets complicated in my mind, is trying to drive the gears. Ideally, I'd like to see each cassette turning at normal 'play' speed until it gets to the end, and then rewinding at a much higher speed, just like a cassette player would do - with none of them being in sync - so it would be random which ones would be 'playing' and which would be 'rewinding' at any given time. But this would be quite a feat of engineering to make this possible! It would be much more feasible to make them all in sync - this way they could all be driven with one small electric motor, and the only real difficulty is figuring out how to drive all of them at the same time with gears - and how to get the motor to reverse itself once the end of the tape is reached.Mark Maximushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09168311061053782181noreply@blogger.com