/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1924622
If a company were doing what you describe they'd hire a team of engineers:

A mechanical engineer for the tape transport mechanisms.
An electrical engineer for most of the circuitry.
A computer engineer for some more circuitry and programming any FPGAs and microcontrollers.
Probably an industrial designer to design a slick ergonomic case.
Inevitably a computer scientist when management wants to add cloud service microtransaction app bullshit.

None of these engineers would know much about tape storage straight out of school. University gives you a broad knowledge base, then you go on to become an expert on specific things at your job.

>>1809977
Are you sure your tape drive can run backwards like that? I've built a synth that controls tape drive motors. I wanted them to be able to run backwards but that was done with a mechanical system of putting the head into reverse gear. Reversing a spindle that's supposed to be pulling tape just makes it spray tape out.

>>1673706
> Where can I see more projects people have done similar to this one

Check out the Moog Circuit Bending challenge finalists. (I won it in 2017 with this thing). "Circuit Bending" sounds like just fiddling with a few components to get weird noises but the finalists here are really building synths from scratch using electronic garbage. The contest gives a $70 budget and really rewards clever resourcefulness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI12Tr2CLDM

My last project got attention on Hackaday and I'm one of the three finalists in the Moog circuit challenge so I'm going to to be playing it and showing off at a music festival. I documented it on hackaday.io so I could also enter their contest.

http://hackaday.com/2017/04/13/hackaday-prize-entry-zappotron-super-sequencer/