HDDJ: Turning an old hard disk into a rotary input device

Hacking an old hard disk drive for use as a rotary input device.

http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~villar/publications/ColorDex-NIME07.pdf

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• DIY
• Electronics
• Computer

[coolmagicdude]

its nice to have some smart people who dont turn their hard drives into speakers and stuff

thanks

[Heimarbeit666]

i think this is research...something you're probably not familiar with...

i think it's awesome what they do...keep up the work and hopefully it will deliver insights and inspire something great...

Apart from that i salute all music pioneers who are building their own gear...this work is what changed music a lot, creating completely different sound experiences.

making music with serato or else ist pretty easy...building your own set of electronic music devices is what will really rock ppls socks!

[bluthefox1]

it will be awesome play dj hero with these

[Heimarbeit666]

so far it's creating input in two directions right?

[devote]

It's cool.....but i dont even see the point of this

its too small and pretty useless...why use a cd or a tiny hard drive when a turntable with scratchlive(insert other dj software here)works and can be manipulated much better with a nice big surface.

[TexZK]

Oh, cool! :-) I didn't think it was already ok for MIDIBox Core rotary encoder inputs!

[fibranijevidra]

It don`t needs any protocol conversion. You just connect it directly to something like MIDIBox as it is rotary encoder. ; )

[TexZK]

How do you control the wheel motor, and its speed?

[TexZK]

Yes, but it needs protocol conversion!

[Vids42]

Quite nice!