My Final Project

Auto Record Player

I’m a vinyl collector and I enjoy listening to vinyl records, but a problem I face is that if I ever want to listen to an exact song, I have to pick the needle up, find the right groove, and place it there. What if I could automate this process? This would be very useful, especially for compilation albums which don’t have any flow of songs between them. A device that would scan the entire vinyl for deep grooves indicating the various songs. A camera on the tip of the needle will be used to scan the vinyl, and then a mechanised grabber clamper will clamp around the vinyl, spinning it automatically. The needle will then scan the other side of the vinyl as well. This will give the user a full list of songs on the vinyl which will be displayed on a screen, and then the user can choose any song on the vinyl. The gimmick of the vinyl auto-rotating and the needle searching for songs will be part of the device’s allure.

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