Star Wars fan James made this interesting low-tech ode to the films:

In the first video Star Wars Floppy, the author may have controlled the motor via program similar to the 1541 floppy. I came up with a simpler way of doing it. Rather then programming I took the audio output of an amplifier and feed the signal through a clamping diode. The output was hooked up to one phases on the worm drive motor. To give the motor a louder sound I added a small DC voltage to the other phase in the oppisite polarity. This caused the motor and the head mechinism to vibrate providing a louder audio signal.

The clamping diode rectified the audio signal providing me with a positive output that swings from .7 to +9 volts. Mind you it worked great for low frequencies but I had to use more amplification for the higher frequencies. Most of the sounds were recorded live except for a couple of sound effects such as the lightsaber. Since there were many video takes I took the best clips and complied them into one.

WATCH VIDEO: Star Wars Floppy Disk II

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