News This Raspberry Pi composite video player fits inside an old school VHS tape

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Alan Boris is using a Raspberry Pi to power his custom VHS player and recorder housed inside an old VHS tape.

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Cute, but the most '733T points would've been awarded if they'd integrated a 1-D electromagnetic interface that a VCR's head could actually read the signal off of. Then, you could pop it in a VCR and watch it as if it were a real tape... sort of like those audio cassette adapters that used to exist for playing musing off a portable audio device in a car that had only a cassette player.

The tricky part is that it needs to be at least 1-D array, since VCRs use helical scan. Each sweep of the head corresponds to a scanline on the screen. That's why VHS tapes were so thick.