BadGoldEagle
Well-known member
Hi all.
I couldn't sleep last night because of a damn mosquito that kept buzzing around my ears so I relocated to the adjacent room's floor (there are only two beds and a couch in my one bedroom apartment, one bed was already in use and the room with the mosquito had the couch and the second bed.) ANYWAY, my life is very exciting as you can tell.
Obviously it was impossible to get some sleep so I did the next best thing: day (or rather night?) dreaming about some new Mac hacks. |)
The SCSI2SD is great and all, but I miss the old hard drive sounds. I was thinking that it could be possible to record some sounds and then play them back. When you think of it, there are only two things that make noise: the heads moving back and fourth and the platters rotating. With the proper audio equipment, we could record some sample sounds (stepper motor initialisation if applicable, platters starting to rotate, platters rotating at a steady 3600rpm or whatever and also a couple of head movements).
The first part of the said emulator would play a couple of mp3 files in some order: first stepper motor initialisation, then platters starting to rotate and finally platters rotating. That's easy. Any mp3 player can do that.
Then for the actual head sound, we could use the LED activity light as a trigger. Every time the light flashes, that means the heads are moving, so if we play a couple of different head movements in a random order every time the light flashes, we should get pretty close to the sound an actual hard drive would make when used.
As for the hardware part, there are some mp3 players for the Arduino, so I was thinking we could use one or two of them boards and then mix the two audio channels together. Add a speaker on top of that and that would be it.
The best thing about this is that it would work with any emulator with an LED activity light (scsi2sd, scsi2cf, drem mfm emulator and so on...)
So, what do you guys think? I'm not sure I can pull this off myself, so if someone else is interested in this project, let me know. I'm gonna do some more research on the mp3 player extension and see if it could play two mp3s at once...
I'm also going to ask advice from some of my teachers. I hope they can help.
I couldn't sleep last night because of a damn mosquito that kept buzzing around my ears so I relocated to the adjacent room's floor (there are only two beds and a couch in my one bedroom apartment, one bed was already in use and the room with the mosquito had the couch and the second bed.) ANYWAY, my life is very exciting as you can tell.
Obviously it was impossible to get some sleep so I did the next best thing: day (or rather night?) dreaming about some new Mac hacks. |)
The SCSI2SD is great and all, but I miss the old hard drive sounds. I was thinking that it could be possible to record some sounds and then play them back. When you think of it, there are only two things that make noise: the heads moving back and fourth and the platters rotating. With the proper audio equipment, we could record some sample sounds (stepper motor initialisation if applicable, platters starting to rotate, platters rotating at a steady 3600rpm or whatever and also a couple of head movements).
The first part of the said emulator would play a couple of mp3 files in some order: first stepper motor initialisation, then platters starting to rotate and finally platters rotating. That's easy. Any mp3 player can do that.
Then for the actual head sound, we could use the LED activity light as a trigger. Every time the light flashes, that means the heads are moving, so if we play a couple of different head movements in a random order every time the light flashes, we should get pretty close to the sound an actual hard drive would make when used.
As for the hardware part, there are some mp3 players for the Arduino, so I was thinking we could use one or two of them boards and then mix the two audio channels together. Add a speaker on top of that and that would be it.
The best thing about this is that it would work with any emulator with an LED activity light (scsi2sd, scsi2cf, drem mfm emulator and so on...)
So, what do you guys think? I'm not sure I can pull this off myself, so if someone else is interested in this project, let me know. I'm gonna do some more research on the mp3 player extension and see if it could play two mp3s at once...
I'm also going to ask advice from some of my teachers. I hope they can help.