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posted by martyb on Monday July 11 2016, @08:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the Phantom-of-the-Floppera- dept.

Paweł Zadrożniak has built an impressive music machine from old computer hardware. Featuring 64 floppy drives, 8 hard disks and 2 scanners he's calling it The Floppotron.

How does it work? The principle is simple. Every device with an electric motor is able to generate a sound. Scanners and floppy drives use stepper motors to move the head with sensors which scans the image or performs read/write operations on a magnetic disk. The sound generated by a motor depends on driving speed. The higher the frequency, the greater the pitch. Hard disks use a magnet and a coil to tilt the head. When voltage is supplied for long enough, the head speeds up and hits the bound making the „drum hit" sound

Paweł's Youtube channel has an overview of the device in action and this impressive Hawaii Five-O cover.

Originally spotted on Lobste.rs.


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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 11 2016, @08:30AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 11 2016, @08:30AM (#373021) Journal
    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11 2016, @09:35AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11 2016, @09:35AM (#373026)

      We all gonna have too much time on our hands, bro, soon as we gets our basic income so then we can all build pointless shit and write fucking poetry.

      • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 11 2016, @10:10AM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 11 2016, @10:10AM (#373029) Journal

        The only part of that "basic income" that scares me is, the "basic". Basic subsistence is pretty miserable, to be honest.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11 2016, @08:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11 2016, @08:57AM (#373023)
    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11 2016, @10:14AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11 2016, @10:14AM (#373032)

      How does it feel to be a stupid shit?

  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Monday July 11 2016, @11:24AM

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Monday July 11 2016, @11:24AM (#373047) Homepage Journal

    Since it's all emotional and shit, can we call it Lori?

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  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Monday July 11 2016, @02:29PM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Monday July 11 2016, @02:29PM (#373125)

    Very cool setup there, but personally I would like to see some even larger equipment in use such as 8" floppy drives, large line printers, that sort of thing. Crank up the bass!

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday July 11 2016, @03:38PM

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Monday July 11 2016, @03:38PM (#373162) Homepage
      Yeah, and we need some case fans for Lesley Boxes!
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