Comments on: Scanner music

By: Nick stefanisko

Nick stefanisko — Wed, 24 May 2006 22:17:58 +0000

Very cool, but not new. The origional HP ScanJet (before they started adding numbers and letters to them) came with a program called SJBOX (DOS program) and half a dozen or so files that played music. Playing music on your scanner is still cool though. I used to work for HP and still play french horn in the HP orchestra. One of our members has written a couple of songs based on the sounds made by various pieces of office equipment, such as laser printer duplexers and such.

By: chronic_the_hodog

chronic_the_hodog — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:47:56 +0000

i tried this on my usb HP PCS1350xi AND IT REBOOTED MY COMPUTER! muahahah i guess thats what i get for screwing around with my scanner!

By: Qays

Qays — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 04:00:40 +0000

does anyone know how to do this on a USB scanner? If there’s a way to do it on a Umax Astra, does anyone know about it (or know how to write it)?

By: shane

shane — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 02:42:33 +0000

Now that is a cool hack
but I tell you what would make it better
is if played the star wars theme tune in the video

then it wouldnt be cool
it would fucking rock

By: shane

shane — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 02:41:28 +0000

Now that is a cool hack
but I tell you what would make it better
is if played the star wars theme tune in the video

then it wouldnt be cool
it would fucking rock

By: fever

fever — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:57:30 +0000

Not only is this a function of the scanner and not really a “hack”, the original magazine articles are documented on HP’s site. I have one of these scanners on a shelf somewhere, so I figured I would take E up on their challenge and encode Paul’s Boutique… Needless to say, it’s way more work than I want to attempt. That’s one reason the video is of Fur Elise and not something else.

By: gargleroadside

gargleroadside — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:02:56 +0000

^ Re: Anybody have a mirror of the video? ^

Try the link given in comment #28 above.

By: Architectonic

Architectonic — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:16:14 +0000

Anybody have a mirror of the video?

By: Giuliano

Giuliano — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:26:54 +0000

Hahahaha, my dad has an old HP Scanje 4c. I am so gonna snag that and have some fun. Muwahahahahahah

By: gargleroadside

gargleroadside — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:32:50 +0000

I’ve put the video file of ‘F

By: Rob donker

Rob donker — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:09:20 +0000

Reminds (and dates me) of setting a AM radio next to my Altar 8008 and programming different length loops to create “pitches” in the noise on the AM radio. Took about a week to program “Jingle Bells”. Awesome!

By: goliathdrakken

goliathdrakken — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:56:31 +0000

w00t!

slashdot:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/01/09/1413257.shtml?tid=222&tid=1

By: Mike Lynch

Mike Lynch — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:54:41 +0000

This may explain the HP scanner we received a few years ago — we tried to install the software from the cd only to discover that it was in fact an Ella Fitzgerald album, masquerading as software! Luckily, we had purchased two scanners and the second one had software on it.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:06:43 +0000

how about a real POWER balard?

http://www.renaultf1.com/en/car/engine/index.php?news=tcm:3-41673

By: hypatia

hypatia — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:02:35 +0000

The classic of course: http://www.sat.qc.ca/the_user/dotmatrix/en/intro.html

symphony for dot matrix printers :)