Wow yeah that doing it with the original 7 inch (*) mechanism and read/write head, hacking the head movement and electrical in/out for the magnetic head, Dogtanian would seem like a good idea to try.. Too bad I can't find my floppy disc turntable right now. I just checked underneath my workbench.. It was a winter project when it wasn't so hot out like now.
About the groove tracking problem. I really didn't want the floppy disc turntable to do a traditional spiral "groove" as I was going for it to do an old tape echo like effect or a small segment loop sampler to add to a live music. I just mounted a saw shaped comb facing up on the back end of the tone arm so the tone arm would rest in a notch on the comb locking it into one section of the floppy disc. It would then stay on that segment of the floppy while I added or erased sounds with the cassette tape stylus. This created a strange effect (hearing how lo-fi the sound was) or just enough time to scratch something.
I thought it was a 7 inch floppy as I didn't use the whole 8 inch discs cover. Just the gutted inner magnetic part. Sorry for the confusion. I couldn't double check it before I posted as it's missing now. I just hope it didn't get tossed out on the last clean up of my electronics bench.... I'll have to start over looking for another turntable to gut! Yikes!
I can't see this guys site now but I made a 7 inch floppy disc turntable 2 years ago with an old tape deck head as the stylus. Gutted the 7 inch floppy and mounted it on an old 78 rpm turntable. The big problem was that the tape decks recording/playback head being used as the "stylus" needed lots of weight pressed down on the gutted floppy disk to get it to record any sounds or just to playback. The sounds that came were very poor too. From the topic seems as if he is using the whole floppy drive? Hmmm... Cant figure out how you would do DJ scratching without getting an electrical shock.... Someone msg me when it's un-slashed.
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Wow yeah that doing it with the original 7 inch (*) mechanism and read/write head, hacking the head movement and electrical in/out for the magnetic head, Dogtanian would seem like a good idea to try.. Too bad I can't find my floppy disc turntable right now. I just checked underneath my workbench.. It was a winter project when it wasn't so hot out like now.
About the groove tracking problem. I really didn't want the floppy disc turntable to do a traditional spiral "groove" as I was going for it to do an old tape echo like effect or a small segment loop sampler to add to a live music. I just mounted a saw shaped comb facing up on the back end of the tone arm so the tone arm would rest in a notch on the comb locking it into one section of the floppy disc. It would then stay on that segment of the floppy while I added or erased sounds with the cassette tape stylus. This created a strange effect (hearing how lo-fi the sound was) or just enough time to scratch something.
I thought it was a 7 inch floppy as I didn't use the whole 8 inch discs cover. Just the gutted inner magnetic part. Sorry for the confusion. I couldn't double check it before I posted as it's missing now. I just hope it didn't get tossed out on the last clean up of my electronics bench.... I'll have to start over looking for another turntable to gut! Yikes!
I can't see this guys site now but I made a 7 inch floppy disc turntable 2 years ago with an old tape deck head as the stylus. Gutted the 7 inch floppy and mounted it on an old 78 rpm turntable. The big problem was that the tape decks recording/playback head being used as the "stylus" needed lots of weight pressed down on the gutted floppy disk to get it to record any sounds or just to playback. The sounds that came were very poor too. From the topic seems as if he is using the whole floppy drive? Hmmm... Cant figure out how you would do DJ scratching without getting an electrical shock.... Someone msg me when it's un-slashed.