How cool is this? My friends and I have fun tinkering with audio gear every once in a while, but this awesome hack is beyond anything I would have thought up. By taking apart a drive, mating it with a tape recorder, and doing a few other really cool things, this talented hacktress has made 3.5″ floppies capable of holding about 15 seconds of analog audio.
Due to the the way the thing is writing, there’s bleed between the tracks, so you hear stuff from a second behind, a second ahead, etc. The effect is really freaky; she plays “Still Alive” and it’s just recognizable. With something a little simpler, maybe a single instrument, it’d be killer.
[via Hack a Day]
This is an awesome idea! I agree with the above person in saying that there needs to be a tutorial on how to make such a device!
Interesting! How many nerds are going to sample these sounds? Tutorial, please! (Also… I’m a little in love w/ Circuit Girl)
I was pondering the possibility of combining this idea with the walkman mellotron to see what would happen. I have so far managed to get control of the floppy drive motors but I’m at a loss as to which of the connectors running to the head I need to use. Could anyone point me in the direction of the information, or give me a pointer as to how I can work it out.