Cassette adapters are remarkably simple

It's a real lost opportunity that we didn't call these Cassettepters. It's not-at-all difficult to say! OK, maybe Cassepter would be easier but isn't that, like, a sword or something? The descriptions are getting weird.

Links! Get 'em while they're hot!
The Techmoan video I referenced;
My own very old video about video tape;

Other links!
Technology Connextras (the second channel that stuff goes on sometimes):

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[xnamkcor]

Ironically, these made cars with a tape deck more future ready than a car with a CD player.

[IstasPumaNevada]

"While this is completely and totally useless, it is at least mildly interesting."
This sentence describes upwards of 50% of the things I spend my time thinking about or doing.

[IgorKolar]

"It's not groovy, it's particular" .... you've outdone yourself, sir.

[taketh]

That unit provided the best sound per dollar than any other device I ever purchased. From the 70s to today. Sweet analogue signal. Thanks for keeping it concise.

[MiWill]

6:03 "While this is completely and totally useless it is at least mildy interesting."

Well Sir you've unlocked the secret to my YouTube recommendations

[HarlanHaskins]

I very vividly remember the dark period of cars between ~2006 and ~2010 where they’d mostly gotten rid of their tape decks but hadn’t yet added aux jacks. Stuck with CDs for the life of the car.

[JDsVarietyChannel]

4:26. That got personal real quick. I have a 96 Honda Accord. And yes the cassette player still works!!

[NotOnLand]

Fascinating, I always assumed it had a small loop of tape that was continuously re-recorded, but that would probably wear out quickly and needs twice as many components.

[undolf]

“Friggen tapes, how do they work? Magnets!”

Best line

[GanonMasta]

Bluetooth cassette adapters are the most Cyberpunk bits of tech I didn't know existed. Rad.

[archivushka]

- What are device you using to handless calls? Earphones? Speakers?
- No, I'm using a *cassette player*

[GNUGradyn]

I love how stopping the tape player from detecting it's reached the end of the tape is more challenging then actually feeding audio to the tape player

[TheFruitMugger]

"Freakin' tapes, how do they work?! ...Magnets!"
Well, that just raises further questions!

[aronb]

With a 1/4 adapter you could play an electric guitar through your car stero with these. Pretty cool back in the day.

[DeviantOllam]

So. Many. Jokes at start! 😂

But, seriously, as a person who still uses one of these regularly because I'm the proud owner of a 20-year-old truck that I maintain and keep running... May I ask how many people have ever tried the Bluetooth versions of these?

Perhaps a future video could solve the mystery as to why EVERY SINGLE BLUETOOTH CASSETTE ADAPTER THAT HAS EVER EXISTED IS HORRIBLE AND UTTERLY NON-FUNCTIONAL. 😠 I realize one appears in the video (before I started typing this comment) but I've now tried at least 5 of these and every one has sounded like an Emerson stereo playing inside of a college dorm bathroom.

It's quite the boggle.

[bAcnBoY]

I was always so baffled about how these worked (but to be fair, I didnt know how casette tapes in general worked). I'm so surprised by how simple it is. Awesome video idea and great explanation.

[dissonantdissident]

One of my first 'hacks' was when I lost my own adapter as a child. I ripped the head out of an old walkman, did some surgery on a set of headphones, and glued it all into a real cassette. I never had any sort of feed spool mechanism or anything but it still worked perfectly! Totally forgot about my shenanigans until you reminded me today! Thank you!!

[lostwizard]

"not groovy" and "particular". I see what you did there. I also LOLed.

[BiohazardEXTREME]

It's ironic that something like this actually makes having a cassette deck in your car more viable than a CD player.

[doctoranonymous]

It feels like every time I start to think about how a random object I suddenly remembered works, either an old video or new video of his appears on my front page without me looking it up or talking about it like he knows I wanted to know how it worked