The Floppotron

The floppotron is a collection of floppy disk drives that are connected by various controllers to create music. The sounds are produced by manipulating the motors within the disk drives and scanners. Frequencies are sent that specify how fast the motors should run, resulting in a range of pitches. Here, we can see that it has been programmed to play "Africa" by Toto, but it has played many other songs as well. This is an ongoing passion project of Paweł Zadrożniak, who plans to continue development on his third major iteration of the project, making it even bigger and better.

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