Reciprocating Hard Drive Motor

I Took a hard drive which I used as a former speaker and attached a wire to the Read/Write arm which is connected to the spindle motor. I had my computer do a sweep from 4-52Hz. It ends up going Really fast and is REALLY loud. (I didnt measure the rpm on it yet..)

And Yes.... Movie maker distorted the sounds again.......

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• Reciprocating
• Hard
• Drive
• Motor
• disk
• head
• crash
• speakers
• platter
• spin
• fast
• loud
• cool
• broken

[ThodorisTEM]

toooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much free time

[Bobensen]

I do have a lot sometimes, when I do i just tinker with things

[TheGeek1028]

Dude, just leave him alone. Not his fault anyway.

[linuxlove4004]

that hard drive is having a hard time reading the disk!

[pacman1866]

I got 1 thing to say... HOLY SH**

[RavenPrecept]

58 cycles or revolutions per second is 3480 RPM, pretty good for such a heath robinson arrangement :-)

Good use for a dead hard drive.

[Wildatheart73]

LOL haha funny

[Si3z3]

80gb in 3 seconds

[KyleCarrington]

An interesting aspect of that motor is its ability to produce a very high speed yet random activity. One could try getting that to activate a bifilar coil magnetic field collapse and charge a battery with radiant energy... in a random order. That's be interesting.

[sparramore]

nice...i like it dude...i had a lot of fun building mine...I was the first many years ago :) So what else you got, other crazy things?

[falmatrix2r]

measure RPM please :p

[DJelectfire]

someting is telling me to copy this and add it into a laser light show Ive been working on...

[christiancapella1]

@bebek1993 Lol.

[bebek1993]

@christiancapella1 And I take the magnets too, but I'm melting the hard drive, making it usable again for some aluminium pouring :P:P