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Turning Dead Drives into Speakers?
An anonymous reader writes "Why pay 500$ for Klipsch's latest speaker system? You can make something that looks way cooler for the price of a DIY amplifier and some HDDs out of a dumpster. It doesn't sound quite as good but who cares!"
Next week we'll show you how to turn a laundry basket and a speak & spell
into your own segway.
Ah yes.. the good old 1541, I remember it well...
;)
WHIRRRR... CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK.
It used to get confused about where the head was positioned, so it would move it a long distance until it physically collided with the edge of the platter to re-align itself. Fruits of reading "Commodore DOS" back to back
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
"Girls can try even making music come out of their vibr... *cough*... "
Damnit, now I'll never get laid again.
"But baby, YOURS doesnt play soothing music!"
"Yes Police? Could you pay a visit to my neighbor. It's 4am, I'm trying to sleep, I have work in the morning, and he just bought a 200 gig hard drive, and a keg of beer."
- ufcker.com -
This was back when computer geeks were very rare, so we were just one more group that shoved a few tables together in the corner, ordered beer, made funny noises, laughed, ordered more beer, rinse, lather, repeat.
-- MarkusQ
...that college dining hall trays make excelent mounts for home brew electronics projects!
Even better: afrodot.org :-)
Next week we'll show you how to turn a laundry basket and a speak & spell into your own segway.
Warning!: This will reduce the value of your speak & spell and laundry basket.
Yeah. But this time Martha Stewart is the one showing you how to turn old hard disk drives into speakers. Same with turning the laundry basket and a "speak and spell" into a Segway. She's gotta come up with bail money somehow.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
Yes, the junked hard drives have to work. If you use broken hard drives, the amplifier will cause the loose magnetic particles in the broken hard drives to signal a channel directly to the operator's brain, rearranging your neurons according to the sound being amplified which will cause you to become confused, and your memories will become jumbled, randomized, and replaced, and you will start to speak in tongues. I've also heard that if you use broken hard drives for this project, that it's possible that your liver will turn inside out (something to do with frequences being emitted on certain broken hard drives). This complication is more rare than the brain side-effects, though. I'd recommend you use strictly working hard drives to avoid these issues.
Since this is a four-month old story, how about we discuss turning old HDDs into speakeasies instead? With hookers! And blackjack! In fact, forget the disk drives!
Maybe the latest trolling techniques by our resident trolls?
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get the
Funny how redundancy can be a good thing and a bad thing at the same time.
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I think this one has even been reposted twice. Mark your calendars for six months from now, folks!
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