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Build A Stereo From an Old Hard Disk

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

An anonymous reader pointed us to an amusing little hack site that demonstrates how you can build a little stereo out of an old hard drive. Of course I don't need a stereo for I am a human beat box.

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  1. Old News by googleaseerch · · Score: 5, Informative

    There was a different article like this one over a year ago. The other person made 3.

    1. Re:Old News by mpeg4codec · · Score: 5, Informative

      That was an Afrotech Ghetto Hardware Mod. Sorry, couldn't find the /. article on it.

    2. Re:Old News by dragonman97 · · Score: 2, Informative

      I'll take that one a bit further: Here's a post of mine, citing how that article (in *August*) was yet another dupe. All said and done, I do intend to build one such system for myself, and have been building up an array of dead hard drives at work :).

  2. Wow! by DrEldarion · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nowadays home cinema systems are really expensive for you, you're not going to buy them, why? just because you can build one of your own!

    Thanks, man! I was thinking about going out and getting a nice surround sound system, but you just saved me hundreds of dollars!

    Joking aside, this is a neat little hack. We actually did this in my physics class in high school (along with other fun things like plugging a pickle into an electric socket).

    The most fun part of that page, though, is to refresh it and watch the counter at the bottom go up. In just the time I took to write this message, it went from 850 to 1400.

  3. YATTA by TexasDex · · Score: 3, Informative
    Another person did this, and has the videos to prove it at Afrotech Mods

    The song "YATTA" will get into your brain and it won't leave. Except that in the hard disk video you can't quite hear it all that well.

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  4. Re:Anyone know where I can get... by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 3, Informative
    Will an AVI do?

    Here.

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  5. Re:Translation please... by wideBlueSkies · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you don't have the proper screwdriver handy, try drilling through the screws.

    Be careful when using a drill bit that's small enough to wear away a screw of the type used to secure hard drives. Because of their size, they have a tendancy to snap when caught on jagged metal. It's not nice having little pieces of drill bit bouncing into your face.

    I've been there.

    wbs.

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  6. Re:Commodore 64 music? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Drive music and it played mary had a little lamb.

  7. Redone by Kevin+Burtch · · Score: 2, Informative


    Others have done it... here's a 3-way speaker reported on /. years ago, and here's another.

    Why are all these people suddenly making projects that have been done over and over, and reporting them as "new ideas"? Just like the jet engine made out of a turbo-charger the other day... that's been done hundreds of times! Heck, it's even been done on Junkyard Wars!

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  8. Re:This was the post from awhile back- by thewldisntenuff · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oops....Broken link

    Ok, give this a try. This should be it.

    Sorry bout that :)

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  9. Regression! by Firlefanz · · Score: 2, Informative

    We had three-way speakers before!

  10. Re:The Most powerful magnet... by boffy_b · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, HD magnets are WAY stonger than those puny things, just don't get two stuck to-gether, or put them on your mum's fridge.

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  11. Don't try this at home... by tiger99 · · Score: 5, Informative
    ... or you will destroy your amplifier. Note that he says that you need to join the left and right channels together to get mono, if you are only making one speaker. Two low-impedance sources carrying different voltages......

    In any case it would work far better if the coil was kept within its original magnet, and the edge glued to a diaphragm. It is designed to work that way! If you were only wanting a woofer, you could simply attach the diphragm to the existing head arm, but don'y expect any response above a few 100 Hz.

    I honestly wonder why anyone bothers with something so stupid anyway.

  12. Re:This was the post from awhile back- by erpbridge · · Score: 2, Informative

    From that article, Comment by Meagane. However, it's 9 months now, not 6.

  13. Mirror here by DrD8m · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is a mirror http://www.terra.es/personal/sorgocondenado/speake rbox/