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Harddrive Speakers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the take-it-to-the-laser-light-show dept.

paranoidia writes "Ever get annoyed by the loud noise your harddrive makes? I bet you never thought of actually using that to your advantage. A friend here at CMU actually took 3 broken hard drives and got them to spin at certain frequencies outputed by his computer. So in the end, three harddrives are actually now speakers! There are videos and a few pictures with explanations onto how he did this wonderous thing."

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  1. Re:Plain crazy ... by jidar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well maybe you should try replacing your sound system with some new harddrives.

    *laugh*

    No seriously, the sounds recognizable and its a pretty impressive technical feat. Honestly though, I'd like to see a vibrator speaker system as well. Maybe it would turn on some women to new types of music.. omg.. stop me now.

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  2. Re:Neato! by loz · · Score: 2, Funny

    hehehe, Afrodot, news for idiots.

    http://www.afrotechmods.com/groovy/takeover/afro do t.jpg

    loz

  3. Re:A new call to the Police.. by phagstrom · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...he just bought a 200 gig hard drive, and a keg of beer


    Police: Sorry sir, we can ask him to close Windows. Other than that we can't do anything. :-)

    Very fsck'ed up.
  4. "Pr0n software for the Apple ]["??? by No+Such+Agency · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, I can only imagine how arousing THAT must have been...

    *monochrome green naked woman, or possibly a tree sloth, it's hard to tell, moves across the screen at 4 fps*

    "GRONK GRONK GRONK"

    I'm getting all tingly just thinking about it.

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