Turning Dead Drives into Speakers?

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Turning Dead Drives into Speakers?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August 11, 2002 @05:44AM from the because-you-can dept.

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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My 1541 drive was a speaker too! by October_30th · 2002-02-16 05:40 · Score: 5, Interesting

I remember that my C64 1541 diskdrive could be made to play tunes, too.
Too bad it caused serious head misalignment after a while.

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On the same site... by rjw57 · 2002-02-16 05:55 · Score: 5, Interesting

On the same site is a cool HOWTO of how to make an old monitor into a cardboard + plastic model of the final level from Doom ][. Just follow this link.

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lives in my dorm by altaic · 2002-02-16 06:07 · Score: 5, Interesting

He lives two floors below me-- it's pretty wild. It doesn't actually need to spin the platters, though, and that not how the sound is created; the noise comes from moving the heads over the platters. Hard drive heads move via by a coil like those in a speaker, which he drives with a home-brewed amplifier. Similarly, he did it with a cpu fan, which yielded much more quiet results. Headphones, anyone? =)
Re:Far worse than a repost: complaining about it! by langed · 2002-08-11 08:07 · Score: 5, Interesting
I believe the point here is not that this one article is a duplicate, but that this is a growing trend on our beloved Slashdot. A brief look at the articles today:
- This article repeats Feb 2, 2002 First by Hemos, today by CmdrTaco
- Jet Exhaust Affects Weather by Hemos repeats Peer-Review Process Confirms Contrails Climate Effect by timothy, Aug 8; a mere 3 days later.
- Rat Mind Control repeats Remote Controlled Rats both posted by timothy
3 in one day does seem a bit extreme, at least to my way of thinking.
Perhaps the concept proposed by a previous poster (to help catch "duplicate" stories) might be a good idea.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but as I recall, /. is heavily based in SQL. Thus it could be fairly trivial to check something such as this, presuming that the articles' links are entered into the SQL database.
This, of course, shows the beauty of Open Source, though:
- I am a programmer.
- I have an itch.
- I'm going to scratch it.
Slash is freely available. I think it would be nice, in the true spirit of Open Source, to simply develop a link search and submit a patch.
In fact, since I just spent all this time complaining and finding the links, I just downloaded it. I'll commence work on a patch immediately.