[Coco] Music with Floppy Drives & Hard Drives

[Richard E. Crislip]

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/?ALLSTEPS
> 
> 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.