Floppy Drive Music with a Calculator

[mp1101ful]

can you load data from diskette into the calculator????

[Paticula1135]

Just think. A solar powered calculator playing music.:D

[Oweng40000]

Not coldplay Argh.

[theFURIOUSgamers]

I HAVE NEVER HEARD COLDPLAY MURDERED SOO BADLY

[c4sh3w]

I would have certainly needed that as a loudspeaker for my TI-83-games when I went to school back then!

[beereezle]

I guess this was perfectly calculated.

[Minecrafteons]

Did you record this with a calculator!!

[ThePotkustart]

if someone desinged a way to film a video with calculator that would be aweysome! (and a way to film with a potato ofcourse...)

[22progre77]

I'm sorry sir, this will need to be taken down as you do no't own the rights to Coldplay's Clocks. . . . hahahahhahaaha

[ziiik0]

Sounds a bit like Daft Punk.

[290aiden]

Calc hack?

[OliverMD15]

SCIENCE! you cant explain that

[Xblvestic]

Its "Clocks" by Coldplay if you don't know

[mookow69]

I love the ending, it sounds like "burp" XD

My TI-83 calculator eats ur gaming rig's bitz!

[Gullshunter]

wow this is impressive!

[sensitivebeat]

Pretty epic! Totally deserves all the mentions on the gadget websites

[MHEvlun]

Wow man.

How is that just possible ? :D

Really Nice ... If you would have worked in the 60s on computers you'd have done miracles xD

[gudenaurock]

Usefull, no, fun, YES!

[ideeman1994]

Hi, do you have a page explaining how you made it? Btw nice project :)

[KermMartian]

@ideeman1994 Thanks! I have not yet posted a full build writeup, but I plan to do so this weekend.

[Zk2500]

@KermMartian not 41kHz but still nice. :P

[KermMartian]

@ideeman1994 Long overdue, I have added build details, schematics, and software links to the writeup page: cemete. ch/pr38

[ideeman1994]

@KermMartian Thanks! :)

[technomonkey76]

To be honest, I've never fully understood the craze behind making music with floppy drives. But the reasoning is made irrelevant when you create an amazing result.

[januzi2]

@arminonly96 Speed of sound

[MeggsRandomVideoTube]

AAAWwwwwwwwEEEESssssssssOOOOOO­OOOOOmmmmmmmmEEEEEEEEE

[DJOmnimaga]

I wonder... if the floppy drive could produce more acute sounds in a NES square style, you could get a group of friends together, connect floppy drives to as many calculators then attempt playing Through the Fires and Flames using Badja's piano or another music box program. :D

[njllllljon]

This is really good work. I used to have the 83+ Silver. Sold it. Should have never.

[InfraStricture]

Good job on this is there a way to root the TI series of calculators because I hate TI Basic

[KermMartian]

@InfraStricture There's no need to root the TI-83+ and TI-84+ series of calculators; they can be natively programmed in ASM. The TI-Nspire is another story altogether; if you want a nice color screen calculator, the Casio Prizm is a good choice. If you need some programming help, feel free to stop by Cemetech.

[fabianswebworld]

Somewhat crazy, but I like that! Very nice and creative! :-)

But unfortunately the video was encoded with a wrong aspect ratio property (it's 16:9 but the player "thinks" it's 4:3, thus squeezing it all together...)

Would you mind inserting the control tag "yt:stretch=16:9" (without the quotation marks) into the Tags of this video? This would fix it and the video would be much nicer to look at! :-)

Best regards,

Fabian

[KermMartian]

@fabianswebworld Thanks for sharing that trick; I'll definitely have to remember that.

[julosoft]

Awesome Kerm :D

[ted3681]

Sweet Jesus.

[benryves]

Good work, Kerm! Shame about the choice of song... ;-)

[dantes1976]

@benryves What's wrong with Clocks?

[Sorunome]

That is cool! O.o

[m0rphzone]

but yea I didnt know floppy drives could make music..

[KermMartian]

@m0rphzone They can indeed make music. By pulsing the stepper motor that moves the read-write head forward and back across the disk very fast and carefully-timed, you can approximate musical tones.

[m0rphzone]

yee TI-83+!

[DracoMhuuh]

wohow KermM I'm baffled =D Awesome man

[lrwhorse]

Wow! Geez kerm!

-Linwail