Floppy disks are now just an “antiquity” of the previous generation of technology, in everyday things they are almost no longer useful at all, the capacity of floppy disks is too little to store the Modern digital content 2 player games
If anyone has been struggling to get hold of a 3.5″ floppy drive lately, we think we’ve got a clue as to why — behold, the mighty floppotron 3.0 by [Paweł Zadrożniak.] With an utterly bonkers 512 floppy drives, four flatbed scanners and sixteen hard disks of various sizes, the floppotron 3.0 MIDI synthesiser is possibly the biggest such retro hardware synthesiser so far. Since every part of the system is motor-based, nobody is going to be surprised that to power the show is quite an undertaking, with nearly twenty switched-mode PSU modules needed to keep up with the demand, averaging 300W but rated at 1.2kW peak!
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Extra fun:
Hazard Fraught Tools. Go figure. https://imgur.com/gallery/JcG3B
Tomi Engdahl says:
Scratching with Barcode Scanners
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=39Jg-eQq3-s
Barcoders Jamming
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOfpQt4KFCc
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Brilliant Boolean logic explanation from Twitter user 38mo1. https://twitter.com/38mo1/status/1320004943542009857
Tomi Engdahl says:
Based on an Arduino Due, this portable 16-drive setup lets you make floppy music from anywhere.
How to floppymusic – Building a new 16 drive setup
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=hjFn6ug535Y
scp 096 says:
Thank you very much for writing such an interesting article on this
barton says:
Floppy disks are now just an “antiquity” of the previous generation of technology, in everyday things they are almost no longer useful at all, the capacity of floppy disks is too little to store the Modern digital content 2 player games
Tomi Engdahl says:
Behold The Mighty Floppotron 3.0
https://hackaday.com/2022/06/14/behold-the-mighty-floppotron-3-0/
If anyone has been struggling to get hold of a 3.5″ floppy drive lately, we think we’ve got a clue as to why — behold, the mighty floppotron 3.0 by [Paweł Zadrożniak.] With an utterly bonkers 512 floppy drives, four flatbed scanners and sixteen hard disks of various sizes, the floppotron 3.0 MIDI synthesiser is possibly the biggest such retro hardware synthesiser so far. Since every part of the system is motor-based, nobody is going to be surprised that to power the show is quite an undertaking, with nearly twenty switched-mode PSU modules needed to keep up with the demand, averaging 300W but rated at 1.2kW peak!
http://silent.org.pl/home/2022/06/13/the-floppotron-3-0/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Behold The Mighty Floppotron 3.0
https://hackaday.com/2022/06/14/behold-the-mighty-floppotron-3-0/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Master of Puppets on FLOPPOTRON 3.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtRVTYMA87k
Metallica – Master of Puppets played by The Floppotron 3.0, computer hardware orchestra. Which song would you like to hear next