Build Your Own Phonograph
After that story about resurrecting the oldest ever recording, lo and behold, up popped on my radar several kits for constructing ones own phonographic recording/playback device. In the red corner we have this bad boy, which uses plastic cups as the recording medium:
Sound of the 19th century is indeed coming back to life now! You can buy this guy over at the Make store, for the low low price of 35ish bucks. Competitor number two ironically uses a CD as a recording medium:
This can be picked up from Very Cool Things for thirty smackaroonies. If you’d like to see how someone got along putting one of them together check out this blog for one guys experience along with a bit more info.
