[Coco] Music with Floppy Drives & Hard Drives

[Kip Koon]

Richard,
Yes, I did!  It was surprisingly good.
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Richard E. Crislip
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:09 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Music with Floppy Drives & Hard Drives

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 02:36:40 PM Kip Koon wrote:
> Hi Everybody!
> 
> I came across this subject quite by accident while researching 
> something else.  I found some videos on YouTube about people making 
> music with the Ardunio Uno and the Ardunio Duemilanove by interfacing 
> the direction pin 18 and the step pin 20 of 3.5" floppy drives to the I/O
pins of the Ardunio.
> The link showing how to do this is below.
> 
> http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Musical-Floppy-Drives/?ALL
> STEPS
> 
> Here is a link to an example of what I'm talking about using 13 3.5" 
> floppy drives playing Popcorn - Hot Butter!
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJsfP9QQH-4
> 
> It is both hilarious and amazing! I was so enthralled by the 3.5" 
> floppy drives making music, that I probably killed an hour or more 
> watching various videos using both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives and 
> some hard disk drives making music as well.  It is fantastic!  In my 
> wildest dreams of using computers, this has never crossed my mind.
> 
> If I can find my Ardunio that I stored away when I didn't know what it 
> was (that's another story), I plan to do this myself.
> 
> You can actually hear the musical notes coming from the stepper motors 
> moving the Read/Write Head assemblies!
> 
> I'd like to see someone do this with a Coco.  It would make a great 
> demonstration of yet another thing the Mighty Color Computer can do.
> 
> How about let's all start a contest sometime soon after the current 
> contests are completed and see what We can accomplish.  It will be a 
> lot of fun!
> 

Hi,

Didja see/hear the one that used two diskette drives to play Star Wars
Imperial March? Iwas really good.

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