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Build A Stereo From an Old Hard Disk
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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There's gotta be SOME kind of law this violates.
Whenever someone does something cool with music or technology these days, it seems they get SUED by some American company!
C'mon. DMCA maybe? RIAA violation? It's gotta be somethin!
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> Of course I don't need a stereo for I am a human beat box.
I thought marriage was supposed to fix that!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
There was a different article like this one over a year ago. The other person made 3.
That's what i've been saying for years. I've used old harddrives for many things. These includes:
1. Weapon (seriously.. excellent self-defence tool. Saved my ass once)
2. Ash-tray (screw it open)
3. Toy (Am i the only one who find those rotating plates amusing?)
4. Paperweight
this is probably the most boring sig in the world
an .mp3 to see what it sounds like?
Does anybody else out there remember a program for the Commodore 64 that use the 1541 floppy disk drive to make music? By moving the drive head at different speeds, it played "Jingle Bells" or something else like that. The drive still ran OK after that one. Can't say too much on this project, though.
Yeah, yeah, it's possible to build a stereo from a hard isk...
I'm sorry, but I don't think very many people enjoy the screeching sound of a needle penetrating a harddisk-platter.
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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.
"Take the hard disk and open it, may be you will need a little torx screwdriver if you don't have it, take the hard tools: the drill and eat them with it."
Can anyone translate this for me?
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From cup holders to stereos, just a few more ideas and I will be ready to retire my Pentium2 and recycle it into good junk.
Sig temporarily out of service.
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.
The Cheese Stands Alone.
Ok--it's a speaker )which is really neat).
Butt it's 1 speaker, so it makes it mono, and that's it.
I thought it was going to be something to play/store music on. Unless there's more, we've been jipped.
Damnit, Jim, I'm an anarchist, not a F@#$!^& doctor!
I think you need TWO speakers for that. Yes, a RAID streo system is in order.
My "stereo system", computer with two harddrives is the best source of white noise around. Unfortunately, my power supply is louder.
the most powerful magnet on a computer is in the hard disk.
what about on the speakers?
Pa-chew!
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Others have done it... here's a 3-way speaker reported on
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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Ok, give this a try. This should be it.
Sorry bout that
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... mean that you can get a harddrive from an old speaker?
the following stories:
* DIY ipod;
* DIY home media server;
* DIY wireless speakers (bluetooth, wifi);
* DIY ethernet speakers;
* DIY home SAN;
etc.
We had three-way speakers before!
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.
Does anyone else remember making music using the Sinclair microdrives? I don't know what was up with quality assurance at Sinclair (except that Clive couldn't afford any), but the drives all ran at different speeds. So get yourself a dozen QLs (or ZX microdrives, or ICL One-Per-Desks), work out which notes they correspond to (relatively, no need for concert pitch here!) and then get programming! Starting and stopping the motors on the various machines will pump out da choons.
From that article, Comment by Meagane. However, it's 9 months now, not 6.
This is a mirror http://www.terra.es/personal/sorgocondenado/speake rbox/
I use them to hold stuff to my walls - they're attracted to the steel in the heads of drywall screws. It's also a great way to find where your studs are - because that's where the drywall screws are.
The flag just makes more sense than the constitution. - Judas Gutenberg
I once connected the audio out directly to the voice coil of an old disk, without dismounting the head assembly. The sound output was of course pretty low, but definitely audible and of relatively good quality.
the worst part of soldering in your underwear is the flux you have to use to make the solder stick. it really stings.
or maybe the whole idea is fluxed up, I don't know....
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Yeah, i've done glasswork, flux burns. But also if your using electronics solder, with the flux built it, the spatters will burn the top of your thighs pretty good. Not that i do boardwork in my boxers often...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
When I first learned about this (on slashdot actually) I tried building a couple hard drive speakers for our university lounge. They actually worked pretty well, the only hard part being soldering to the thin, insulated wires (need to sandpaper down to reveal wire).
We hooked it up to extra speaker outputs on the back of an ancient radio amp in our lounge so you can switch from regular speakers to hard drive speakers. The hard drives are actually wedged into corners of a wooden cabinet, and the real nice effect is because they cause the wood to resonate. Overall, the output is pretty loud!
but only in Soviet Russia.