Computer Hard Drive Stepper Motor Experiment -Slow Motion

[kuza261]

i lust took apart my old 40 gigg full of photos and im cewing it right now

[xniquilador]

I am sure that music is from a King's Quest soundtrack... =)

[neato3000]

Ha ha WOW I can't believe you got that to work like that. Id've gotten so frustrated trying to get the wires to sit right that i would have thrown it.

[NickBlackDIN]

you used the wires as "switches" wouldn't it be neater if you put a plate closer to the disk and use brushes?

iether way, good job.. evens if it is a bit sloppy..

btw, may I ask what kind of camera you used to get it that smppth on slow-mo?

[thedothedew]

So many fingerprints on the platter, for shame ._.

7200rpm drive?

[taofledermaus]

Haha, I hope I can recover all that data on there still!

I think it was a 7200rpm/ 40gb drive. This was only turning around 500rpm tops. The motor controller in the HD is needed to get it up to high speed working like a speed controller on a brushless RC car/airplane motor.

[ryukenosuke]

...you did this to a working HDD? I, too, hope you're able to recover the data on there. Hahaha

[taofledermaus]

The HD was old, and was causing some computer problems, plus it was only 40gb, so it was yanked out of a computer and replaced with a higher capacity one.

[cwjolly69]

to late for that lol

[wavelength1970]

wow that thing must be flying