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Slowly turn up the volume, aaaaaannndd...... COPYRIGHT VIOLATION!

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.

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!

Ahh back to your roots!

this sounds like beats by dre

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

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

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

u so rock ty been watching u for years ya taught me alot built many awsome projects in my lab while watching your blogs on my main screen

Great Video Afroman.

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

Afro u are awesome keep post dude!

Classic!

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.

Awesome video. I made something similar to this, I took a optical drive asembly from a cd player and underneath the lens there are usually 2 or 4 coils with 2 or 4 magnets next to them. I managed to hook the coils to an amplifier and voilla. I made a headphone out of it and yes you can put it next to your ear and has bass lol. Cheers :)

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

sire can you make a video about audio modulated flyback or plasma speaker

What do you recommend for voltage/current of the input signal? I have a few old HDDs lying around that I haven't gotten around to destroying yet, and I'd much rather do this with one of them haha

Can you show how to make equalizer ang guitar effects and how to incorporate that into a power amplifier?

That was brilliant.

Any tricks you could bring to bear to improve the sound? Obviously it will never be good, but my intuition is that there ought to be something. Also- would this work with the platter spinning? I'm guessing that a large part of the effect is from rubbing on the platter, so probably not.

Fantastic. Thanks. Please do a tutorial to get the platters moving

what is the most watts of audio can be used with the hard drive speaker?

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...

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 :)

do tutorial on diac,triac,thiristor and that stuff

Good music choice :D

Is it possible to move the head of the drive and play music at the same time?

Could you make a tutorial of a transistor amplifier circuit step by step tutorial? Seems complicated for me to comrehend.

1:59 Which raises the question: could you use this with a modified HDD firmware to create a hidden microphone?

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

Afro where can buy resources to build tech things

What is the likely outcome of just using a jack and or the use of ann mp3 player? And that was kool in an unusual way

lol the last song cracked me 😂😂😂😂 bangarang

this is pretty awesome haha

Nice Video.

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.

Just found this gem of a channel

So going to try this..

İt's awesome project

Please make a video about winding transformers

how to connect wire from hardrive please confirm me completely detail

So this is how the floppotron’s performance of “Want You Gone” from Portal 2 was able to make the hard drive sing

new camera!! great :)

I just heard Bangarang come out of a metal disk. My life is complete.

I remember this one from the old website 10+ years ago xD

Is is possible to make a cheap and dirty amp circuit with a 9V battery and an LM386 to drive the hdd and and use it as a electric guitar amp+speaker that is loud enough to hear over the normal "unplugged" sound of the guitar? It would look awesome

Nice!

someone should try using this as an actual tweeter in a bookshelf speaker

But how do i get the songs to play?

A cool addition would be to have the platters rotate slowly.

how to use this without amplifier ?

I'm curious, did UKposts warned you about these two popular songs ?

amazing :D

That is the best sounding speaker ever.

Is it mono

...i wish you had this up before, i took an old hard drive apart and kept the magnets...

An interesting mod. Good if you need a speaker but it's all you have., and you have an amp handy too.

1:25 nerds be like : sttttaaaaarwaaauuuurs

y u didnt show the magnet head moving

How did you even think of doing this?

Ha ha :) Nice video! Thanks I wonder if there's a way to make it sound better?

OMG The sound quality is much better than a Marshal valve amplifier.

How can you make the speaker sound clearer?

What is the music not the star wars one but the second one

WOW!

The star wars theam did it for me, thumbs up

what is that song playing near the end??

Actually the head moves because of the right hand rule. If the coil was an electromagnet the head would move up and down instead of side to side.

Same thing can be made with flash drives. Digital synth sound will be out, of course... Good old hdd sound :(

Im just going to copy this random file over to another folder and listen to my favorite song while doing it lol.

What if I don't use an amplifier?

not bad :)

Interesting...

Hook up the drive's motor to a MIDI interface and you'll get a ghetto turntable.

The Floppotron..... is that you?

What's the name of that last song?

Waaao man!!

I find Skrillex to be especially appropriate for this application.

Wounder if it could be possible to contain everything inside the HDD, and replace the HDD on a friends computer to make a funny prank.

You can tell your friends its magic hahahaxhah

And for my next trick, I am going to turn this mouse into a polyphonic synthesiser. #haptictastic

ARRRRRGGGHH MY EARS!!!!

I think one could get a fuller sound if 2 paper cups and a string were used. That was not what I expected .You can turn just about anything into a speaker. That was really weak for the amount of work.

u should make the disks spin like you're reading data from it

nice hack!

2:15 that's not how speaker magnets are polarized, here is how dc.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/loudspeaker-figure.png

I love Star Wars, i reconised the theme inmidiatly (Sorry for bad English)

Ugh, that low end speaker is to poor for me, the sound of that is nothing compared to MY portable valve amplifier connected to my $20.000 custom made headphones that I use to hear high quality music at the bus. I can't believe that peasants actually listen to garbage sound like MP3s (ew). My ears would bleed if something that isn't FLAC is near me. I cringed when the sound of that non SSD came out. Now, if you will excuse me, I need to get my hands on the new premium sound audio SD cards from SONY and my pure gold digital audio cable covered in authentic Egyptian papyrus.

TechnoTechModz

OMG....hipster headphones! I must have a half dozen hard drives I could do this to...

yeah...you can play music with motor

bangarang

SNUGGLY PUPPY

take them magnets... throw away HDD

lol starwars hell ya

Almost a hifi speaker! *sarcasm*

Sounds like a earphone ngl

Until you showed the coil there I really thought you were just fucking with us