Adding eurorack features to a tape recorder

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

One of my favorite pieces of music hardware is a 4-track TASCAM Porta 03 mkII tape recorder that I acquired back in ~2013. Having grown up with a DAW, I’d gotten the itch to record music with some self-imposed creative limitations, and a coworker at the time kindly gifted it to me (thanks Carol, if you’re out there). Though I’ve yet to use it for producing any full songs, it has found a home in my modular synth setup. I use it there to record, manipuate, and play back tape loops.

Reverse-engineering an RFID writer

Wed, 23 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I ordered an RFID reader recently for an undergraduate project under the impression it would act like a keyboard emulator, sitting in a waiting state and outputting scanned tags to the keyboard buffer as they came in range. I found, however, that what I bought was actually just a reader/scanner for checking and writing new RFID tags – not for actively scanning them as a check-out station or security system might.

Hacking on Evan King

Adding eurorack features to a tape recorder

Reverse-engineering an RFID writer