• Back To The Future theme played using 6 Floppy drives and 2 Hard Drives
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Jeez do people have some ingenuity.
why
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;44868184]why[/QUOTE] why not?
[QUOTE=Keitaro;44868310]why not?[/QUOTE] Yeah?
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;44868184]why[/QUOTE] why have an avatar of a pony cartoon character? because people like/enjoy it? pfft, don't be ridiculous. people don't do things because they like or enjoy something.
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;44868184]why[/QUOTE] Oh hello you must not liking having fun, you should try it sometime. It's fun.
I had fun once, It was awful.
how the fuck do people do this?
Glorious. Absolutely glorious. [QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;44868184]why[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Crash155;44873438]how the fuck do people do this?[/QUOTE] [I]*Looks at their avatars[/I] We all wonder the same thing, about adult guys watching cartoons for little girls.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;44875256][I]*Looks at their avatars[/I] We all wonder the same thing, about adult guys watching cartoons for little girls.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Crash155;44873438][b]how[/b] the fuck do people do this?[/QUOTE] Brony or not, why be a dick to someone asking a legitimate question?
I love how it's inside a briefcase. Looks like a bomb.
[QUOTE=booster;44876314]I love how it's inside a briefcase. Looks like a bomb.[/QUOTE] I'd like to drop that bomb in my room. not literally
[QUOTE=Crash155;44873438]how the fuck do people do this?[/QUOTE] Its straightforward enough, I helped a mate of mine create a simple one. You just get some floppy drives, power them up with some power supply, then get a Raspberry Pi or some microcontroller and program it to control the control pins of the floppy drive. There's a pin for "read" or "write" and apply a voltage to either one to control it makes the drive "scan" back and forth. The sound is made by the head moving back and forth as it's got some sort of worm wheel (which has loads of friction -> nice vibration) You use PWM (I think, from memory) to control the speed of the worm wheel motor so you can get different notes. From there, it's just a case of getting/making some MIDI files and interpreting them in your microcontroller/Raspberry Pi code and controlling the drives appropriately Hard drive is probably a little harder to control
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