PCG Article Floppotron 3 is here!

[Brian Boru]

Ever wondered where all the old floppy drives went? Stay tuned, big reveal only moments away!

This has been going for around a decade, so you may have come across it before. But now version 3 is out.

https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-a-stunning-orchestral-arrangement-played-by-hdds-floppy-drives-and-scanners/

Some 2-3m YT videos from Floppotron 2:
The Show Must Go On 2017
Sweet Dreams 2017
Bohemian Rhapsody 2018

I think it's one of the coolest projects ever!

Tech details of how it's all done:

http://silent.org.pl/home/2022/06/13/the-floppotron-3-0/

 

[Zloth]

Ever wondered where all the old floppy drives went?

Silicon Heaven, same as all the calculators.

 

[Colif]

Ever wonder how annoying it will be when one of the bottom black drives dies and you have to mess around removing one?

512 floppy drives is a little silly

I hate to imagine programming it.

 

[Brian Boru]

Star Wars Theme on FLOPPOTRON 1m 30s

 

[Brian Boru]

I Want to Break Free—4 minutes.

 

[Colif]

I would add tag: Floppotron track list but well, tags don't work.

waiting for them to do a rendition of ORGAN2/ASLSP - the longest musical piece in existence, only goes for 639 years... but there are a lot of pauses between notes. https://universes.art/en/specials/john-cage-organ-project-halberstadt

Or if you can't wait that long, what about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Page