Floppy Drive Reverb. Recording Analog Audio on Floppy Disks

Jeri Ellsworth describes how she attached a floppy drive to a tape deck recorded and then played back audio. A simple circuit stepped the head automatically using the spindle index pulse. A push button was used to control the direction. The drive head wrote to more than one track at a time, causing an interesting reverb effect. ***Erasing the disk with rare earth magnets while spinning in the drive was not mentioned in the video.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Reverb
• Jeri Ellsworth
• Fatman and circuit girl
• Audio

[CmdrTobs]

Oh noes, Americans talking about this mystical 'Sodder' again.

[jeriellsworth]

@CmdrTobs Yeah. Yeah. 

[Meteotrance]

guess what i need a space echoe how did you make this wizardry ^^

did you have some paper document to build the same.

[jeriellsworth]

@Meteotrance Some guys put together a forum out on the web some place that documents this project more. I don't have the link on me at the moment.

[SquidMan64]

They need to make more girls like this ;_;

[linuxboygenius]

Is that Still Alive from portal?

[paulj0557]

I have an idea to take an 8-track to cassette adapter apart, vibrate the 8-tracks PB tape head in front of a recording head and feedback the audio through the vibrating head, meanwhile audio tape can be going between the two heads, perhaps off to one side so that 1 of the two stereo tracks have tape and the other half is just the mated PB & REC heads. Having a tape monitor circuit would be simple...in fact all of this is simple really, I just have too many projects right now, so someone do this

[tankjr85]

I can't believe we had the same idea, when i was a kid i opened up an old 5.1/4 hard drive and i wanted to feed some audio to the heads and try to listen it back with a tape head amplifier.

[CassetteMaster]

@BitGridTV My goal is to build a machine to record audio on a very large hard disk (and also on the big floppy disks).

[gsagula2]

She is virgin!

[BitGridTV]

I see rappurs using this allready.

did anyone try to record on HDDs yet?

[kinmanyuen]

omg shes intelligent

[tavit111]

lol it sound like jigglypuff ;)

[t0nito]

My kind of woman.

[CmdrTobs]

@RyuDarragh Me? I loath language. I'll mo you some symbols and you dem me some words.