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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: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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    Huh?
  3. 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.