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February 28th, 2009 8

The thought never occurred to me: scratch-building your own turntable. Paulo Rebordao writes:

This is a record player complete with a servo controlled arm that I’ve designed and built during the last 10 months. It has a few unusual features and I think it looks Way Cool!!!

Besides some general info on the workings, I also made available the schematics and software for downloading.

The Turntable