Subj : The Floppotron 3.0
To   : All
From : Warpslide
Date : Fri Jun 17 2022 11:30:46

Polish engineer Pawel Zadrozniak has created a "PC hardware orchestra" that 
plays tunes through floppy disks and other computer hardware parts.

The Floppotron 3.0 is a PC-generated musical orchestra comprised of 512 
floppy disk drives, 16 hard drives and four flatbed scanners. Zadrozniak, the 
mastermind behind it all, has been working on several versions of the project 
since 2011.

Zadrozniak's first Floppotron model featured a pair of floppy disk drives 
playing "The Imperial March" from Star Wars. Then in 2016, he expanded to 
64 floppy disk drives, eight hard drives and two flatbed scanners.

Fast forward to 2022, and Zadrozniak now has a full orchestra of computer 
hardware playing tunes from Michael Jackson, Queen and several other famous 
artists.

A key aspect of the system is the noise made by the electric motors, followed 
by the frequency it generates that in turn produces different notes.


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Jay

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