Star wars theme played by a floppy disk hack.(vodpod.com)
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Star wars theme played by a floppy disk hack.
http://vodpod.com/watch/799407-hacked-floppy-disk-plays-star-wars-music-as-awesome-as-it-
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This is amazing. I'd like to hear more about this, specifically what gave you the idea and how you did it.
The story behind the laser itself is pretty interesting. It was largely built by people at a hacklab in Toronto. Here's a writeup from another member:
http://www.andrewkilpatrick.org/?p=laser_cutter
During the build, we noticed the sound of the stepper motors was unusually melodic. The sound it made while tracing an arc was inescapably musical.
One night, I just hacked up a Ruby script to translate a simple ASCII music notation into movement commands. This is actually quite simple. Feed rate * DPI gives you pitch and distance / feed rate is note duration. All the axes are intersected to create a single list of movements. When multiple axes are moving, a bit of trig is used to calculate the right feed rate.
The acceleration limits also have to be disabled on the machine.
Here is the code. It should work with any G-code based CNC machine:
https://github.com/jedediah/lasermuzak
http://www.andrewkilpatrick.org/?p=laser_cutter
During the build, we noticed the sound of the stepper motors was unusually melodic. The sound it made while tracing an arc was inescapably musical.
One night, I just hacked up a Ruby script to translate a simple ASCII music notation into movement commands. This is actually quite simple. Feed rate * DPI gives you pitch and distance / feed rate is note duration. All the axes are intersected to create a single list of movements. When multiple axes are moving, a bit of trig is used to calculate the right feed rate.
The acceleration limits also have to be disabled on the machine.
Here is the code. It should work with any G-code based CNC machine:
https://github.com/jedediah/lasermuzak
If you haven't seen this yet, this is probably the best example of a hack like this that I've seen. It was submitted for a contest that radiohead held, and I believe was the winner (it takes about a minute to get rolling):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfHHLfbjNQ
The sound of the scanner is pretty awesome.
And the original by radiohead in case you need some context.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ky1td3_6LY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfHHLfbjNQ
The sound of the scanner is pretty awesome.
And the original by radiohead in case you need some context.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ky1td3_6LY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmoDLyiQYKw phantom of the opera
That is absolutely fantastic. Much better than the ol' star wars thing. I never thought I'd see floppy drives harmonising.
direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4SCSGRVAQE
Listen to Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4
What's a floppy disk?
For those who didn't stumbled upon it yet: http://superuser.com/q/231273/38447 (What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?)
Hum... born after 96 ?
It was the famous B:\ drive discs, they could keep 1.44Mb of data, yes that stands for Megabytes
I had a game called Rex Nebular that was 25 discs :D hahaha it toke forever to install.
It was the famous B:\ drive discs, they could keep 1.44Mb of data, yes that stands for Megabytes
I had a game called Rex Nebular that was 25 discs :D hahaha it toke forever to install.
A: was the 3.5" 1.44MB micro floppy as pictured in the video, B: was the 5.25" mini floppy
No way. A:\ mostly was for those big square ones that could only fit 750k and were thin like a cardboard.
Um isn't that the Imperial March?
This would be more ominous if it played All Along The Watchtower.
I did something similiar by switching on and off (with BASIC code) the relay in a BBC B, which turns the tape machine on or off. It kind of goes clickety click very rapidly.
Music coming out of an electric arc (no moving membrane).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEeWtBAE5LY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEeWtBAE5LY
For some reason, I still have a stack of floppies in my closet. Looks like I found a potential weekend project :)
I've heard PCM audio through the PC speaker, it'd be interesting to try similar techniques with this setup.
So PC shipped with a floppy and a speaker only in order to be able to beep while loading? :)
It sounds like someone playing a Kazoo in the background whilst a floppy disk is filmed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4VLwLFXaE
I'm very interested in the idea of electro-mechanical music. We've all heard machines playing human instruments and machines synthesizing sound, but very few machines built to be novel accoustic instruments in themselves.