Although vinyl involves extra handling with a moment of silence until music starts playing, young people are attracted to the records for the “beauty of incompleteness,” Sakata said.

With their 2021 Hackaday Prize entry called VinyGo, [mras2an] seeks to reinvigorate this concept for private use by musicians, artists, or anyone else who has always wanted to cut their own vinyl.

If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more Admittedly, automatic turntables are polarizing. On one hand, they make playing vinyl records super easy. You place the record, press a ...