platforma
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uk

Hey guys, check it out. Can anyone explain how it works?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE

Last edited by platforma (Oct 3, 2011 4:30 pm)

kitsch
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matt's mind

http://www.mikekohn.net/micro/floppy_music.php

i was JUST having this conversation with my brother...  that link should help.

also, google 'dot matrix printer making music' or something along those lines for something in the same genre of things...

(http://www.qotile.net/dotmatrix.html)

hmmm, i seem to remember a radiohead song being done on repurposed electronics devices.  i'll look for that now.

http://vimeo.com/1109226

edit - did the work...

Shiru
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Russia, Moscow

How this works: a floppy drive has head that is moved by a step motor, you can make it move the head one position up or down. If you doing this at certain rate, you control speed of the movement, and height of 'tone' it produces. You can do similar things with some other devices with step motors, like printers and scanners, but they usually aren't provide direct control on the step motor, so you would need some extra hardware, and for a floppy drive there is everything that needed in a PC.

Last edited by Shiru (Oct 3, 2011 9:25 pm)

e.s.c.
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IL, US

my favorite printer jam