Presenting the apple i-track

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Presenting the apple i-track

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Well some of you may remember me messing around with my 8 track player and making and audio in adapter for it like those you see for cassette players. I completed it and it worked quite well, however, it looked a bit cheap and I didn't want an ugly wire dangling from the 8 track shell. so I finally solved this problem today. I bought a second gen ipod nano from a friend and hardwired it into the adapter. It has a headphone jack on the side in case I want to listen to tunes without the 8 track player and I have put in a female usb port so I don't have to go hunting for my ipod cord all the time. it is not the prettiest of things, but I very much like it the way it is.


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Awesome! :mrgreen: I'm guessing that Alice Cooper tape has been used a lot, the i-Track sounds considerably better. And, those speakers you have... What kind are they? They look a whole lot like mine, but maybe that was just the style back... Whenever they're from....
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the alice cooper cartridge sounds really nice in real life, I don't know why it didn't sound as good on the video. As for the speakers, they are Realistic brand and they are from the late 1970s.
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cool... but I seem to think that pimp my ride did something like this before too...
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no.

they made an adapter for the 8 track player, like the one I made earlier this year. basically what they did was make one of those adapters you see for tape decks, except for an 8 track player. The ipod on pimp my ride was never hardwired into the adapter.
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That is sooooooooo much awesome rolled into one block of killer kick-rumpus-ness!!!

I totally want one for my haus 8)
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thanks.

I just bought a 1960s era sears 8 track player for my car. I'm going to have the most bad ass Buick in town.
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Awesome project. Now get a I-vinyl working :P
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hmm, that will be a bit harder than the i-track, rekarp.

But I have been thinking of doing something similar with an ipod shuffle in a cassette tape.

oh, and ENGADGET, MOFOS! http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/07/ipod ... inds-with/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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themadhacker wrote:oh, and ENGADGET, MOFOS! http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/07/ipod ... inds-with/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I saw that! Congratulations!
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