Silly uses for stepper motors

[Jim Brain]

Jim Leonard wrote:
> Okay, so I saw this today:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4SCSGRVAQE
>
> It's a video of a floppy disk drive playing music by screwing with the 
> stepper motor.  It is my understanding that the video was a hardware 
> hack, but it got me thinking...  For those who know floppy drives 
> well, do you think such a thing could be possible via IBM PC floppy 
> controller software calls only?  Or is a hardware hack required to 
> generate the right frequencies?
You have "heard" the 1541, no?

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=60849
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=37806
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o&feature=related

There are other variants, ones that truly make the 1541 sound like your 
original clip, by using the head knocking and other loud actions.

Jim

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