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.

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Printer calling contests

[MarkusQ]

Many years ago we used to have a yearly "printer calling contest" (sort of like hog calling contest) at a local pub. Contestents would immitate a printer, and listeners would try to guess the make (& model, & even in one case someone got the serial number, though this was sort of a set-up).

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

These videos prove once again...

[ivan256]

...that college dining hall trays make excelent mounts for home brew electronics projects!

Re:On the same site...

[mindriot]

Even better: afrodot.org :-)

DIY

[MullerMn]

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.

Instead of speakers

[Guppy06]

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!

Re:Um, wrong topic?

[b1t r0t]

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.

...and when it gets really bad, you start reposting Slashdot stories.