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.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 11 2016, @08:30AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XcKBmdfpWs [youtube.com]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11 2016, @09:35AM
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
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8 [youtube.com]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11 2016, @10:14AM
How does it feel to be a stupid shit?
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Monday July 11 2016, @11:24AM
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
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
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