My personal HDD Speaker

SolidxSnake

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• Jun 11, 2006

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So i fixed up my old HDD speaker. For those of you unaware, theres an oldschool mod from a site that shows you how to make speakers out of a hard drive. Anything works, as long as you don't care of the data on it. Pop off the top, solder 2 wires, and then solder those wires to a 1/8" jack and plug it into a sound source (or better yet, an amp + sound source). Sound comes out!

Video of mine in action (3MB):
http://www.bostonrinkrats.com/solidxsnake/hdd speaker.wmv

Can anyone guess the song playing?

original article:
http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/hdspeakers/hdspeakers.htm

 

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four4875

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• Jun 11, 2006

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ive built those before, i had a few 3.5s and a bigfopt runnin at once back in the day, but i burnt up the eq i had powerin them. was an old 60 watt jennsen.

 

Knacko

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• Jun 13, 2006

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Kinda sounds like Rammstein. Can't make out the vocals at all.

 

Fr3@k3r

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• Jun 13, 2006

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your tooo damn fidgity with that camera... lol

nj btw

 

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SolidxSnake

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btw, the song is an instrumental (the vocals are a quote).

Lamb of God is the artist

 

Niku-Sama

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• Jun 13, 2006

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i rember afrotech.

i've always wondred though, do the sam princapals (i know i cnat speel!) apply to hard drive like speakers?

like the bigger the platter the lower the sound? (aka like more bass)

 

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SolidxSnake

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Niku-Sama said:

i rember afrotech.

i've always wondred though, do the sam princapals (i know i cnat speel!) apply to hard drive like speakers?

like the bigger the platter the lower the sound? (aka like more bass)

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I believe so. I know he used a 5" HDD, a 3.5" and a laptop drive to make different pitches.

 

Encore2097

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• Jun 16, 2006

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Well all a speaker is is conductive wire wrapped around a magnet... you can make one out of a tin pan and copper wire lol.. costs a heck of a lot cheaper too!

 

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• Jun 16, 2006

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cept it sounds ****