16 Floppy Drives Making Music

Pretty neat, although I have to say he should have maybe chosen a song without as any bass "boom" type of sounds, which those floppy drives just can't mimic
 
damn I could use some of those drives... I still run an old dos 5.0 - 8 chat line system using old 8 bit dialogic boards. Started out in 1991 or so.
 
Many of you probably know but the electromagnets in hard drive actuators were too used for this. Polyphony: check.
 
seems like this video makes the rounds ever year going on a decade now
 
except "this video" was just published today. There have been others like it, but i think this is one of the better ones that featured only floppy drives. I've seen hard drives, dot matrix printers, scanners and other motorized hardware turned into music players, and they have all been impressive works.

Plus, to the best of my (admittedly) limited knowledge on hardware music, this is the easiest to setup and get running at your own home! Those directions are cake!
 
'Floppy Drive' ... I think that says everything you need to know. This guy hasn't had a real date in years.
 
DPI said:
seems like this video makes the rounds ever year going on a decade now
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Published on Aug 20, 2015
James Willis, Cardiff University student, combined the new-school (iPad, myRIO, LabVIEW) with the old-school (MIDI, floppy drives) to create the ultimate electronic band - myFloppyDriveOrchestra. Want to build your own? Check out: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/D...

The video also features a Daft Punk inspired electronic helmet. To learn more about that project, check out:
https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/D...
 
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