{"id":51456,"date":"2015-06-14T22:44:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T04:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/14\/vinyl-up-close.html"},"modified":"2015-06-14T22:44:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T04:44:45","slug":"vinyl-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/14\/vinyl-up-close.html","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl, up close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A phonograph needle reading along an LP record. Y&#39;know, people marvel at the digital age &#8212; I marvel at what was done in the analog age.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103389452828130864950\" oid=\"103389452828130864950\">Yonatan Zunger<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Ben Krasnow<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Electron microscope video of phonograph needle in an LP groove. About 1\/400 actual speed. Captured via Tektronix MDO3000 oscilloscope.<\/p>\n<p>This video was made via the &quot;stop motion&quot; animation technique.  I moved the LP by 50 microns at a time, and captured a frame after each move. The setup inside the microscope was made possible by the fact that there are two separate stages with their own motion controls. I fixed the needle to one stage and the LP to the other so that I could get both parts into the frame at a good angle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/115054970849159689228\/albums\/6160348685388103185\/6160348683821089394'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-jQJkl3DMuVU\/VX30fS-zgnI\/AAAAAAAAKig\/tCM_wK9ilpc\/phono_anim_1.gif?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/EzmSSSu24dm'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A phonograph needle reading along an LP record. Y&#39;know, people marvel at the digital age &#8212; I marvel at what was done in the analog age. (h\/t +Yonatan Zunger) Originally shared by +Ben Krasnow: Electron microscope video of phonograph needle in an LP groove. About 1\/400 actual speed. Captured via Tektronix MDO3000 oscilloscope. This video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/14\/vinyl-up-close.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vinyl, up close&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/phono_anim_1.gifimgmax=660.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8889,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/29\/paging_dr_mccoy.html","url_meta":{"origin":51456,"position":0},"title":"Paging Dr. McCoy &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Mar-06 9:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"A lot of recent and ongoing developments in finding ways other than needles to administer medicine. 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