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HP scanner on lead vocals: 'Somebody That I Used To Know'

submitted by mintbbb

1 decade 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago

Lol, this is so cool! :)

YT: HP Scanjet 3C as the vocals. It lags a bit due to the fast paced vocals. In order for the stepper motor to play a note it has to be moving and with that large carriage it takes a few milli seconds before it can play a note. It doesn't sound like a lot of time but stretch that over a 4 minute song and voila...out of sync. Programming does help to compensate but it is not perfect.
Amiga 600 Bass on left audio output and Guitar on right audio output
Each audio channel was feed into an oscilloscope
2 Harddrives as the drums and cymbal
Xylophone as the Xylophone (duh)
Both the Harddrive and Xylophone are controlled by one PIC16F84A mircocontroller

thanks to A1- Electronics Parts (Toronto) for the great deals on all those old parts that are getting harder to find

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*dead due to copyright claim ???
Lexmark strikes again!

Only published or personal queue videos may be flagged dead - ignoring dead request by spawnflagger.

I don't know how to do the backup thing, but here's the original, I assume he won't take his own down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkaUsBwe0fo&list=UU-IeuGVruu8p-mH7OyNIbWg&index=1&feature=plcp

Damn Patent trolls

*backup=[...snipped...]

Added alternate embed code for this video - backup requested by messenger.

2 more comments have been lost in the ether at this killed duplicate.

Thanks, updated the embed and description from YT!

I geeked out a little

Did it not annoy anyone else that the timing of that damn printer was off? It was too slow to change notes, I found it incredibly painful from that standpoint.

Also, what was actually making the notes on the oscilloscopes? We see the waveforms, but not their sources

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