Scanjet Music

Popadopolis writes "Hack a day is reporting that HP Scanjets have a hidden ability to play music. According to the article, "The HP ScanJet 3c/4c have a variable speed scan head that is driven by a stepper motor. The Play Tune command can be used to move the head at different frequencies." They also have a video of a scanner playing "Fur Elise.""

Re:Latest in a long line of such hacks

[barronVonBackstabber]

The Univac engineers did this at a site I worked at in the mid 80s. 19 tape drives configured to play Beethovens 5th I think, was quite a sureal thing.

Re:Marry Had a Little Lamb

[Gaewyn L Knight]

Why yes.... yes you can :}

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Amaze your friends!

how old is this?

[weierstrass]

yesterday, this link was posted in a comment [slashdot.org] as part of the discussion to a story "guy makes scanner out of optical mouse" [slashdot.org]. a couple of other posts pointed out that hackaday.com has lots more stuff like this.
today it makes the front page.
slow news day?

The USER and Xenophonics

[fantoma]

Printer and Xerox music

The User - Symphony #2 For Dot Matrix Printers:
http://www.emusic.com/album/10735/10735064.html [emusic.com]

Xerophonics:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008NGDB/qid=11 36825794/sr=11-1/103-5928890-1815068 [amazon.com]

Band which uses old computers/printers etc...

[32bitwonder]

The band treewave [treewave.com] uses old computers, game consoles and an Epson LQ500 as their instruments. I find it amazing what they can do with old equipment like this.

Mirror

[linuxpyro]

Here's a mirror in case it goes down: http://slashdot.whatsmykarma.com/scanjet-elise2.mp g [whatsmykarma.com].

ScanJet 4p song in firmware

[kisielk]

My ScanJet 4p has "Ode to Joy" embedded in the firmware. If you set the SCSI channel to 0 and hold the green "scan" button on the front while switching on the power, it will play. I always thought this was a neat easter egg..