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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
7h 28m
English
Make: Community
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HEIRLOOM TECHNOLOGY

JACKHAMMER HEADPHONES

By Tim Anderson

AND A DISCOURSE ON BLIND MEN, CHIPMUNKS, WHALES, AND THE FUTURE.

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I made my first pair of jackhammer headphones about 15 years ago while doing volunteer work for the blind. Many organizations are devoted to helping the blind, including the Library of Congress (LOC) and the Minnesota Braille Press, where I was a volunteer.

The LOC mailed blind people audio books on halfspeed cassettes that played on special orange tape recorders. I used to repair these machines along with a group of retired telephone company workers. Other volunteers, mostly actors, read books onto tape in many sound booths. ...

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