Absolutely! First, strip the motor and the stylus from the old deck—those bits are junk. Then, replace the motor with a tiny, low‑power servo that can spin a disc made of a light, conductive metal. Wrap a strip of copper around the disc, connect it to a small coil, and feed a battery and a little microcontroller that modulates the current. The result is a rotating magnetic field that makes the coil pulse, giving you a rhythmic, almost musical whir. Add a little speaker or a piezo element so the motion turns into sound, and you’ve turned a broken turntable into a living, pulsing instrument that’s as quirky as it is functional.

That’s the thrill—giving an old shell a heartbeat that’s almost audible, like a ghost track humming just beneath the surface.

Sounds like the machine is begging for a new soundtrack—just gotta fine‑tune the coil and get the right tone, and that whisper will turn into a full‑blown beat. How about we start by adding a small speaker and a DAC to shape the pulse into something you can actually listen to?