"Although it may become important again in terms of reviving and sustaining underground, unsanctioned communication."

Jared Ball is not talking about the latest zero knowledge, anonymous, chat app here. He's talking about cassettes.

Ah thanks for listening! Yeah the waver can work well on the tape, but sadly on misaligned decks it will fail. I'm working on a new method that should be more resilient.

The downside is there is no nice app for it yet 😕

One of the best pro tips I've discovered. Get a silver or gold sharpie and label you acdc power supplies. Makes searching under your desk easier.

Oh interesting I didn't even know this was a thing!

AI music is a hot button issue these days. Although personally, I feel that whether you like or not, it's here.

However, if it does bother you I have a guaranteed way to avoid it!

Buy physical media from used record stores!

If you have eco-friendly friends or you yourself are eco friendly, just say you buy vinyl and tapes to keep them out of landfills!

In any case, I found some more nice trumpet tunes.

Bandcamp is the one platform I genuinely like receiving emails from :) the announcements from bands and labels are nice too.

If you are curious about hardware hacking, I highly recommend the new book Microcontroller Exploits by Travis Goodspeed.

I have a nice cameo in the book as well 😀

https://nostarch.com/microcontroller-exploits

Yeah, it's more like a stylophone synth toy. It still should be fun though :) I justified it as a way to explain electric fields to my kids.

It might be nice as a tracker or solar powered weather beacon.

You can also perhaps use software that just generates the audio on your laptop?

What's ironic is that we have a digital mode that is capable of human powered modem (morse). But I think decoders are not as good for this (fldigi) because actual humans are sending it.

I got in on the first run of stylophone theremins. Can't wait to try them! But they don't have the left hand component which I think is the amplitude.

I have lots of experience submarining from land locked countries!

I think you can just use sub audible tones, not unlike PL tones. Then you can filter them out.

But yeah, I've thought of lots os ways for stegonography. You can even just say your call sign in a certain way that's coded for something else.

Thanks, I thinks that's because I'm better at recording than playing right now 😂

For less than 2 months of playing, I'm super happy with my progress. Here's me playing Mia and seb from LA la land.

Compared anything really, it's not that great. But I'm getting better practicing each day. My tone is improving, I messed up some technicals at the end. The rhythm is not consistent. Despite, I'm super happy with how far I've come. 😀

It's mono, right channel only. Recorded originally to cassette and digitized for your (maybe) listening pleasure.

https://a.nostr.build/o1D2upfzkDldQhdX.mp3

Oh yeah that will work. I have plans withing plans within plans! But I'll keep posting progress 😀

This guy claim he got 3k baud with manchester encoding. So, if I can get that, there's lots of possibilities!

Unfortunately I'm out of 5v arduinos and don't want to deal with level shifting. I also forgot that the guitar pedal case is conductive so I need those rubber feet to keep the board off the bottom.

But it all fit nicely in the case :) With testing, about a 3 LP job.

Jamie passed away too early. 🙁 She's was an amazing modern trumpet player I just discovered.

Also, the nice thing about vinyl, it makes you get up and take a break to flip the record. It's like those timers people sell.

Don't get a timer. Get a record player.

I'm building basically a schmitt trigger based on this circuit I found. It will take manchester encoded audio data from cassette and then clean the signal. Then, it's easier to decode.

I busted out all the toys for this one. The signal generator was helpful, I'm putting in a sine wave here and getting a nice digital signal.

Desk needs cleaning but eh.

Oh I have a nice soldering project to do today myself. I had to bust out my signal generator for it.

Wow, that's a much smaller team than I thought. It's pretty impressive.