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04/27/2006

Functional Hard Drive Oscilloscope

This followup to the functional hard drive speakers uses a laser mounted on the HDD's body to produce an oscilloscope effect -- when the output is bounced off a mirror. Video clips after the jump.
We have all seen an oscilloscope hooked up to a speaker output to allow us to “watch” the music. Well now you can see a standard oscilloscope and a Hard Drive Oscilloscope side by side!
[via HG]

This entry was posted on 04/27/2006 6:09pm and is filed under Computers, Mods, Video .
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Posted at 04/27/2006 7:46pm by musictimes
Because?
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Posted at 04/27/2006 8:16pm by bob
can a moderator please edit this post?
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Posted at 04/27/2006 8:24pm by turboslut
I don't get this, first of all first video didn't work how its supposed to. he stops the HD, and osciliscope is till rambling like crazy and second one, what is he doing it with his hand?!?! ridiculous
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Posted at 04/27/2006 9:29pm by bob
stop editing my posts please
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Posted at 04/28/2006 00:47am by whoandwhy
The first video is just crappy. The green oscilloscope has nothing to do with the HDD one. You just can't see the laser becasue the light is on. On the second, the hard drive is hooked to the music (if you didn't see the hard drive speakers post, go see it) and the laser is bouncing off two mirrors, which the second one is shaking along with the music creating the oscilloscope with the laser. The green one on the little screen is a real one that is just for comparison. Kinda cool. Simple enough.
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Posted at 04/28/2006 1:26pm by Graeme
well, this is more of a harddrive semi-functioning as a Galvanometer witha laser pointed at it. all that would have to really be done to make it a functional oscilloscope would be to just make the harddrive spin continuously in the same direction, then just speed up or slow down the spinning dependent on the frequency being input.
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Posted at 04/28/2006 4:45pm by dan waters
whats the song callled? sounds like the foo fighters
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Posted at 04/28/2006 7:13pm by WOW
This is stupid, sorry but it's totally useless
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Posted at 04/28/2006 8:17pm by Primo
Quite interesting what you can do with old hard drives now days. Props to the creator, most likely took some time.
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