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Scanjet Music
Popadopolis writes "Hack a day is reporting that HP Scanjets have a hidden ability to play music. According to the article, "The HP ScanJet 3c/4c have a variable speed scan head that is driven by a stepper motor. The Play Tune command can be used to move the head at different frequencies." They also have a video of a scanner playing "Fur Elise.""
The Univac engineers did this at a site I worked at in the mid 80s. 19 tape drives configured to play Beethovens 5th I think, was quite a sureal thing.
Why yes.... yes you can :}
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Amaze your friends!
Telcos have alot of dark fibre in the States. Most people assume that's optical fibre...but it's actually moral fibre.
yesterday, this link was posted in a comment as part of the discussion to a story "guy makes scanner out of optical mouse". a couple of other posts pointed out that hackaday.com has lots more stuff like this.
today it makes the front page.
slow news day?
my password really is 'stinkypants'
Printer and Xerox music
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The User - Symphony #2 For Dot Matrix Printers:
http://www.emusic.com/album/10735/10735064.html
Xerophonics:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008NGDB/qid=1
The band treewave uses old computers, game consoles and an Epson LQ500 as their instruments. I find it amazing what they can do with old equipment like this.
www.brownsauce.org
Here's a mirror in case it goes down: http://slashdot.whatsmykarma.com/scanjet-elise2.mp g.
Saying "I'll probably get modded down for this" in a post is the best way to get it modded up.
My ScanJet 4p has "Ode to Joy" embedded in the firmware. If you set the SCSI channel to 0 and hold the green "scan" button on the front while switching on the power, it will play. I always thought this was a neat easter egg..