Comments on: Hard drive speaker iPod dock

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:23:21 +0000

Saw this originally on the BBC program TopGear. It’s a Renault Formula 1, car playing ‘God Save the Queen’ on its engine. They start of the youtube video is just random revving of the engine, but give is 30 seconds…..a long way from the CBM 64 disk drive days.

By: bungholio

bungholio — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:42:22 +0000

i bet obama likes radiohead

By: billhates

billhates — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:02:21 +0000

Yea man do some research and do it right. You just come off looking like a lame ass!

By: callmemaster

callmemaster — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:58:15 +0000

This looks like a middle school science project gone wrong….. I have turned Harddrives into Piston type transducers and have produced some high level SPLs… These linear motors han handle much more than your Radio shack Shitty amplifier…… sorry dude you FAIL

By: afroman

afroman — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:36:42 +0000

it blows my mind how far this technique has come

By: HomerGonerson

HomerGonerson — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:56:00 +0000

URGGG!!! Remove the platters, you get better sound.

By: djlspider

djlspider — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:03:16 +0000

These projects are fun, but can we please hear something other than Radiohead? Why is that like the music staple in geek culture? I’m sorry, but I can’t STAND Radiohead anymore. I want to watch these videos because I am interested in the project, but I can usually only make it through a couple seconds because of the crap song they chose.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:42:15 +0000

Diasy-singing 1541 Commodore drive:

By: Johnny Rizzo

Johnny Rizzo — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:19:26 +0000

more info, photos & videos here: http://www.nerdnews.it/lab/hard-disk-ispeaker/

thanks

By: Parker

Parker — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:04:02 +0000

Been wanting to do this for a while. Nice setup!

By: NatureTM

NatureTM — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:18:09 +0000

bushi read my mind

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:34:43 +0000

It would be cool to make a kind of VU meter with a bunch of drives. It should be as simple as rectifying the signal going to the disks and smoothing it with a small capacitor. For a better effect, the signal could be filtered into separate channels then rectified. A scale (green yellow red) could be painted on the disks as concentric circles, and the disks could be spinning for added effect.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:28:00 +0000

Direct link (in english with more videos):
http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/hdspeakers/hdspeakers.htm

By: sprocket2cog

sprocket2cog — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:05:24 +0000

Reminds me of the commodore 64 days, there was a program that used to bounce the 1541 disk drive heads in time to the song daisy, by the end of it the chance that the drive woud fail was about 80% ..lets just say the school wasnt happy with us that week..;p

By: Bushi

Bushi — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:34:24 +0000

Would be cool if the input was filtered and sent to different HDDs. Maybe that’s what’s happening? A cool write up for this would have like Frequency response for each HDD and the filters for greatest sound quality. Then maybe a Frequency Response for the whole system, see how flat you can get it.