The Poormans iPOD

[Googer]

http://www.vidly.net/video-poor-mans-ipod.html

 

[KLin]

poor man's AC

 

[dugweb]

Originally posted by: Googer
http://www.vidly.net/video-poor-mans-ipod.html

how is a scanner capable of producing all those different tones?

Originally posted by: KLin
poor man's AC

:laugh:

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: KLin
poor man's AC

That's a rich mans A/C.

The generator cost $500 and the A/C $200-500. It would have been cheaper, easier, and more efficant to fix or install a coventional automotive airconditioner.

 

[Rubycon]

I'd love to see the code they used to make the scanner do that.

That's not a poor man's ipod - that's a poor man's synth. :laugh:

And the A/C - the window shaker will not keep the cabin of a motorcar cool. Perhaps on a cloudy day. Auto A/C units are approx 60k btu/h.

Originally posted by: dugweb


how is a scanner capable of producing all those different tones?

The stepper motor driver can be sent signals of varying frequency that will cause it to oscillate producing corresponding tones.

 

[krotchy]

Originally posted by: KLin
poor man's AC

The true poor man's AC I saw a while back on some forum. A guy ran metal tubing in a coil around a fan, filled a big bucket with ice water, and then had a tube at the end draining out his window to slightly below where the bucket stood. Bascially the fan would blow on the chilled pipes and cool his room. Gravity would take ice water from the bucket through the metal coil then out the window.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
I'd love to see the code they used to make the scanner do that.

That's not a poor man's ipod - that's a poor man's synth. :laugh:

And the A/C - the window shaker will not keep the cabin of a motorcar cool. Perhaps on a cloudy day. Auto A/C units are approx 60k btu/h.

Originally posted by: dugweb


how is a scanner capable of producing all those different tones?

The stepper motor driver can be sent signals of varying frequency that will cause it to oscillate producing corresponding tones.

link to page with source. Seems that it's specific to the Scanjet 4p and 4c.

 

[akshatp]

http://www.vidly.net/video-college-guys-scaring-people.html

This one is great-tastic!!!

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Bootprint


link to page with source. Seems that it's specific to the Scanjet 4p and 4c.

Nice. Most of the inkjet printers could do this. This gives me an idea. :evil:

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: KLin
poor man's AC

American's.....is there anything they can't do?