The Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak, who had already presented an orchestra made up solely of peripherals called Floppotron, has struck again, reports
01Net
.
This time he assembled 512 floppy drives with 16 hard drives and 4 old HP flatbed scanners to produce sound.
This is his 3.0 version of the Floppotron.
Each element has its particularity.
Floppy disk drives are in the bass register, by means of their rapidly moving read heads.
Conversely, scanners provide high-pitched sounds.
Hard drives provide the rhythm.
The clicking noises and the jingling of the reading heads, carrying out long journeys, ensure the percussions.
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Star Wars played with two floppy drives
The Floppotron made its appearance in 2011. At that time, the Polish engineer used a single floppy disk drive to play a piece of Mozart, and two to play the imperial march from Star Wars.
With version 2.0 in 2016, the music-loving engineer uses 64 floppy drives, eight hard drives and two flatbed scanners to play 120 songs.
The Pole provided the principle of its installation.
A MIDI interface is connected to five controllers allowing the elements of the computer equipment to be moved.
Three of these constructors are assigned to the operation of three floppy drive columns.
By working in numbers, these players allow you to get as close as possible to the sound envelope of an instrument.
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