Here it is, my next project. Ha, I have more than one. This is number 1 in the line of stuff that I am going to make into a computer. Number 2 is a crazy propane space heater about yay high (holding hand about 2 feet off ground)
It's gonna be a cool one because it is round. I already have a name for it since I want to sorta Gilliam Brazil feel to it... it is going to be called the
L.O.W.R.I.E. - Limited Ordinal Wide Ranging Integer Executor. I really think I am going to be complete and give it a small black and white monitor with an old 1970's style tv screen magnifier. I might put Linux on there just to learn a little of it.
Anyways, this record player is a Webcor High Fidelity model. It was in the garbage of a house a few doors down. That house has been going through a rehab process for, oh, about 15 years at least. Probably 20. I don't remember anyone living in there after 1983. All the owners run out of money doing the house.
This was in a big pile of stuff, along with old porn! Awesome. and about 5 old comic books
It even still works! It's listed for a 117 volt current. I think we are 110 now, right? Well, I turned it on and the speakers droned a little, the motor was running but only engaged the turntable briefly. The white indicator light on the front still works!
Of course the first thing I thought of was gutting it and making it into a computer. I'm going to leave the turntable intact. ACTUALLY, what would be ideal, and if I can figger it out or find someone who can help, I think it would be awesome to somehow rehab the turntable to working conditions, connect it through a soundcard/mobo so you can record from the turntable or just audio out it. Or, it'd be realy cool if I somehow replaced the turntable center with a cd rom, probably just take one apart and give it some sorta toploading capability. Both ideas are outta my personal techical capabilities, but it doesnt' mean I couldn't do it.
What is doable is to just gut it, put some low heat/voltage components inside it so I need 1 or 0 fans, and fit the components in. It has a space for outputs on back, but for obvious reasons it is not cut for mobo outputs. I'd like to keep the speakers working from inside the clothe grills, and work the drive doors in the back, or carefully into some of the other clothe grills.
I will fit a small lcd monitor into the top that will fold away, wireless keyboard/mouse, and then I will use it as a mediabox and part of the Train1961 Studios render farm. (doesn't that sound pro, man?)
Actually any project I can work out something I can vaccum form is ideal for me. i loves to use the vacuum former at skool, although it was out of commission last i looked. it's kinda bitch to use right, but good results on it are satisfecho.
I'm working on a new Audioblog playlist now. Posting in a few.
-S
Fixing the engagement on a turntable is really pretty easy...
Cutting, changing or modifying the case may be kind of hard, it may be bakelite and not normal plastic which complicates it a bit.
If you want a hand with it you know how to give me a holla, that is my kind of project!
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