Article 60DWT This PC orchestra, built from 512 floppy disk drives, is wondrous to hear and behold

This PC orchestra, built from 512 floppy disk drives, is wondrous to hear and behold

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James Vincent
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When I was a kid growing up in rural Yorkshire, one of the regular attractions at local fairs was a huge steam-powered organ: a baroque monstrosity of pipes, horns, and whistles that would parp out classical tunes to the delight of onlookers. I don't know if steam organs are still a thing, but if they've been retired then I have the perfect replacement: the Floppotron - a mammoth PC hardware orchestra" that plays music using only electric motors.

Like a fairground organ, the Floppotron is unwieldy, massive, musically unsubtle, and a complete joy to behold. It's the work of Polish engineer Pawe Zadroniak, who's been building various iterations of the instrument since 2011. The first Floppotron consisted of just a pair of floppy drives p...

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