Guy Dupont was frustrated with the lack of new HITCLIPS releases, he I decided to make his own.
HitClips were a series of music playing cartridges (and accompanying players) made by Tiger Electronics in the early 2000’s. They were very small, very cheap, and very popular for a short period of time (before mp3 players became ubiquitous). It seems the children they were marketed towards did not care that they sounded terrible and only contained ~60 seconds of a song on each.
I figure it’s time for redemption! So here are my modernized HitClips. As far as I can tell, they are compatible with all of the ridiculous players that were produced 20 years.
Features:
8 Bit, ~16khz mono audio (trust me, still much better than the originals)
Cartridge audio can be updated easily (spoilers: it’s just a microSD card)
Each cartridge can hold hours (days?) of audio (limited by the size of your FAT32-formatted SD card)
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