Using cassettes to create mixtapes was a fun time to spend an afternoon when you were a kid. There’s something oddly pleasing about this analog media format. Thankfully, if you’ve got a MakerBot in your shed, you can make a modern version of the mixtape, by 3D printing an MP3 player in the shape of a cassette.
The MakerBot Mixtape looks like a cassette tape, but it’s actually a 3D-printed MP3 player with 2 GB of storage. It has buttons for play, pause, forward and backward. The charge lasts four hours and a USB cable is used to charge it up. Keep in mind that its the case that’s 3D printed, and the electronic circuitry inside is most definitely not.
If you’ve got a MakerBot, you can print it in a number of different colors and designs. You can get a kit for $25 (USD). If you haven’t got a 3D printer, then you can buy one already made up for $39.
[via DVice]
Wait a minute here, did you just step into a time machine and traveled all the way back to the past? Aren’t we all for cloud computing these days, with no need for MP3 files that are stored on our portable media player or smartphone locally? What about the CD which has been long obsolete, and the industry has definitely seen far brighter days? Well, if you were to roll back the clock further, you would be faced with this thing called cassette tapes. Younger children might not have seen it at all, and they certainly would have not much of an idea as to how a pencil and a cassette tape worked together. Sony takes us through time with the introduction of their latest product, the HF Series cassette tapes.