Jingle Bells Played With Graphics Card, Santa Wonders Why

As if the entire office full of guitar-controlled lights wasn't enough to make any holiday complete, some enterprising geek has taken it upon himself to give you a rendition of Jingle Bells played on his graphics card heat sink. He probably wont debut at Carnegie Hall, but I'll give him points for effort.

Finally..

[wallyhall (665610)]

Finally a use for that old GeForce 4 MX! Some people have far too much spare time...

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[houstonbofh (602064)]

More than someone. What board and lonely guy saw this and said "I gotta post this to slashdot!!!"

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[NeverVotedBush (1041088)]

You mean bored?

I thought it was pretty cool. NI = National Instruments. I've used their software and hardware for years.

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[palegray.net (1195047)]

It's Christmas Eve. How many bored and lonely guys are posting to Slashdot?

What's worse is the fact that my wife is next door at the neighbors', I have a brand new bottle of whiskey downstairs, and I'm posting to Slashdot. Wow.

Re:Finally..

[NeverVotedBush (1041088)]

It could be worse - your wife could be next door, you could be drinking heavily, *and* posting to Slashdot.

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[palegray.net (1195047)]

I'll get right on that.

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[russ1337 (938915)]

I'm watching the kid and enjoying a glass of wine & reading the "n, funny" posts on Slashdot.

Could be worse. We could've been born that Starwars kid, or Sting.

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[NeverVotedBush (1041088)]

I think Sting has it pretty good - he is rich beyond belief, has a pretty wife, and is into Tantric sex with her. My life should be so bad... ;-)

Dude.

[by Anonymous Coward]

I'm next door, with your wife. We figured you might be posting to Slashdot, just thought we would check.

Dumbest video ever

[MerlynEmrys67 (583469)]

Sorry, I was expecting someone to have found a way of controlling the video card fan to belt out jingle bells, or some strange hum in the graphics system. This... Now this is stupid. I mean what next - someone doing the same thing with glasses of beer, or bells, or ...
Give me my 30 seconds back

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[wallyhall (665610)]

Perhaps some Guitar Hero controlled Christmas tree lights? Got to be the coolest cubical ever!

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[MrNonchalant (767683)]

Wait. So you have all of YouTube, all of College Break, and all of America's Funniest Home videos to work with, and this is the dumbest video ever?

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[ters a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!* (1177175)]

drink-get mix ; drink-get smash ;exit

Re:Dumbest video ever

[Dachannien (617929)]

How about an industrial motor?

I heard a story while I was working at a drive system design/assembly firm about a fellow who, back in the early days of digital drive systems, took a tape recorder, hooked its output up to an analog input on the drive, and used the signal of his voice on the tape to modulate the torque command to the motor, thus resulting in the motor vibrating out the sound of his voice.

Of course, the better stories I heard while I was there involved runaway motors tumbling across the shop floor (they're supposed to be bolted to the floor) or rotors breaking off through the motor housing and lodging in the shop roof. Fortunately, a greater understanding of digital drive systems and better safety practices made the union grievance the only scary thing on the shop floor while I was there.

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[Matthew Bafford (43849)]

How about an industrial motor?

Or an F1 motor? For example, Renault:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eoe8hEzdZ8 [youtube.com]

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[petermgreen (876956)]

mmm, in that video it sounds like they aborted part way through the tune, I think I remember hearing a more complete version on top gear.

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[CastrTroy (595695)]

Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't even sound like it's in tune.

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[BiggerIsBetter (682164)]

Here you go then: Tempest For Eliza [erikyyy.de].

You can use your (CRT) monitor to generate tones that can be received on an AM radio. It shouldn't be a stretch to make it play Jingle Bells.

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[RzUpAnmsCwrds (262647)]

I was expecting the same thing.

If it's any consolation, look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8W2AxXfbvM [youtube.com]

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[fbjon (692006)]

Sorry, I was expecting someone to have found a way of controlling the video card fan to belt out jingle bells

Don't go giving people any ideas now. Next thing you know, a virus starts to spread that plays jingle bells by switching the monitor resolution really fast.

I want my 36 seconds back.

[recoiledsnake (879048)]

Seriously, I was expecting something along the lines of a program that used the hum or whistle of the fan and speeded up or slowed down the fan to get the jingles. This isn't even funny.

Re:I want my 36 seconds back.

[Hollinger (16202)]

Here's a formula one car playing "When the Saints Go Marching In," [youtube.com] complete with blue notes from the exhaust ports.

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[Kris_J (10111)]

And here's a scanjet playing something classical [youtube.com]. Sorry for being peasant and not knowing the tune.

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[NormalVisual (565491)]

At work we can make music using a Q-switched laser on aluminum plate. I need to see if I can get a video of that to put up on YouTube. :-)

well, maybe the rhythm of Jingle Bells...

[harlows_monkeys (106428)]

I didn't hear a lot of the notes from Jingle Bells in there.

Re:well, maybe the rhythm of Jingle Bells...

[sentientbeing (688713)]

They were all there - just in the wrong order.

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[sethstorm (512897)]

N/T

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[Phroggy (441)]

A few of the notes were there. It definitely sounded like a lot of them were missing, though.

I appreciate the effort ...

[eck011219 (851729)]

... but that "Merry Christmas" at the end has a decidedly ominous vibe to it. Maybe a little more time out socializing and less time plucking at one's graphics card ...

Seriously, though, yet another interesting holiday re-use of equipment. My sarcastic comments aside, Merry Christmas back to him.

Santa Wonders Why

[FrostedWheat (172733)]

He's not the only one.

Guitar Hero Lights

[cobryson (957109)]

So then how 'bout the Slashdot users mod up the Engadget Guitar Hero controlled Christmas light article so it makes the front page? The YouTube link is here...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkyrcW24USI In my opinion the work and ingenuity in this are a little lesser than 32 synchronized channels of Guitar Hero goodness. Disclaimer: My brother and I are the architects of the Guitar Hero (Frets on Fire) light display, so yes, I am self-promoting a bit. Thanks for your help!

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[symbolic (11752)]

That was pretty clever. It has "geek" written all over it, and for those that deserve the title, it is one to be held with honor.

So what is it?

[neokushan (932374)]

Festive spirit, or incredibly slow news day?
You decide!

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[mikesd81 (518581)]

I think a little of both...

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[19thNervousBreakdown (768619)]

Really.

*blank stare*

Damn

[Rip Dick (1207150)]

If this guy ever did manage to get laid, making this video must have made him a virgin all over again.

What we expected (kinda) : Scanner music

[Scrameustache (459504)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tatiU2ha0 [youtube.com]

Vivaldi spring, happy easter everyone ;-)

Andy Warhol got it wrong . . .

[Trongy (64652)]

15 minutes is too long.

Now for something less lame...

[jay-be-em (664602)]

Wow, I was expecting some sort of ingenuity, not some dude plucking on a video card fan.

This is much more impressive: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0rA-zhTJuFU [youtube.com]

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[the_humeister (922869)]

Just tried it. It doesn't work.

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[DTemp (1086779)]

I hope you seriously didn't just try that... 120VAC and 1.5VDC are different... NO that TV could not be powered by it.

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[Jesus_666 (702802)]

Mark Erickson, is that you?

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[Zak3056 (69287)]

Wow. Someone really must have been in the Christmas spirit to mod that post "informative." Here's a hint: 1.5VDC != 115VAC.

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[Poromenos1 (830658)]

That's not more impressive. It might even be stupider than TFA.

Swoooooosh!

[jay-be-em (664602)]

And you might be even dumber than both.

Boy, that's lame

[Colin Smith (2679)]

Playing a tune on a graphics card heat sink...

This is how real engineers do it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mfWj1JZEntI [youtube.com]
 

Oh Yeah?

[Tablizer (95088)]

My harddrive started making clacking sounds, so I tuned it to make xmas songs and its far better th%.~`,. ; `

sound card and am radio

[grumling (94709)]

http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/ [erikyyy.de] is using a video card to make music.

Keep your day job

[T1girl (213375)]

Honestly, this makes the http://www.links2love.com/christmas-dogs-cats-jingle-bells-songs.htm [links2love.com] dogs barking Jingle Bells and cats meowing We Wish You a Merry Christmas sound like The Hallelujah Chorus.

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[i.of.the.storm (907783)]

No, wasn't is referring to office not lights. Office is the subject, full of guitar-controlled lights is a modifying phrase. If you're going to be pedantic, at least do it right...