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Often done with floppy drives, hard disks and similar devices by modulating their motors and mechanical parts to produce certain notes.
You can also post and discuss other projects involving the same concept (modulating motors and mechanical components to make music).
Historically people have been creating programs to step floppy drives in specific speeds to make sounds for over 40 years so i would consider this the most influential way to demonstrate this concept.
Nowadays we have more capable hardware making this even simpler and more powerful and it can be a fun weekend project as well.
Around 100w usually for:
All connected to a UPS so measuring is easy and power usage is constant. I would prefer lower as power cost is very high but there is not really anything significant to save at the moment as the server board has no standby function and i need it most of the time.