Hard drive... SPEAKERS?!

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How to turn an old hard drive into a speaker!

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Afrotechmods

Slowly turn up the volume,

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Technoguy

I used to screw around with stuff like this years ago.

You can do this with ANY coil of wire and a magnet. Granted, the coil can get hot so don't go throwing 50 volts at the thing. But an amplified source will work.

Coil generates EM field, Magnet repels it... poof... magic. Sounds n' stuff.

Great vid!

youtubasoarus

I followed your website guide for this back in 2004-2005, when i was in high school. I hooked up the drive to an old audio amplifier and cd player. It was a cool science class demo.

Thanks for bringing it back in video format.

msxenix

Cool. What's vibrating? I'm guessing that coil and magnet normally just pivot the arm and head across the disk radius. Is the arm what's vibrating and moving the air to make the sound waves? Now to think about where else there are coils and magnets that can be adapted to make speakers.

RimstarOrg

I never considered or gave thought of using an old hard drive as a low quality loudspeaker. Thanks for sharing. Best. Don

RestoreOldRadios

Now all you need is an old 5.25" drive for the bass. :)

Gooberslot

Looks like a hell of a fun speaker to spin and listen to at the same time, i love spinning things!!

thatonethattalksalot

Killer video dude! Thanks for the creative new way to use old hard drives!

thomashamiltom

Thats one expensive way to get crappy speakers :) Stil very cool

ElectronicsEnthusiast

I'm just imagining hacking into a large database and making the hard drive room sing. The computer can choose where the voltage goes, so I think that we could probably write a program to turn any hard drive into a speaker without hardware changes. Though I'm not sure how well we'd be able to hear it inside its case.

Theminecraftian

I took mine a few steps further a while back. Removed the annoying platters, added the bottom portion of a paper cup to the arm, added rubber grommets to the stops so it wouldn't hit, then used hot glue to create feet for the bottom. Actually sounded good. :P

travis

For me this film has sentimental value: At the beginning of my professional career I dealt with a computer, which used punched tape as data storage. The tape reader had an electromagnet for stopping the fast moving tape precisely at chosen place. We had a program (in form of a punched tape of course:) ) capable of playing melodies using that electromagnet as a "speaker".
Two storage devices used as speakers and the whole epoch between them...

zl

I'm surprised this video didn't get taken down by youtube's music bot. It always seems to be an ever improving as*hole.
Anyway, nice explanation :)

SetMyLife

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