[Coco] Music with Floppy Drives & Hard Drives

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Fri Apr 19 19:46:04 EDT 2013


I'm kind of curious as to how the 13 floppy drives divide up the
music.  Does each one emulate a particular instrument voice, or what?

Art

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi Everybody!
>
> I came across this subject quite by accident while researching something
> else.  I found some videos on YouTube about people making music with the
> Ardunio Uno and the Ardunio Duemilanove by interfacing the direction pin 18
> and the step pin 20 of 3.5" floppy drives to the I/O pins of the Ardunio.
> The link showing how to do this is below.
>
> http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Musical-Floppy-Drives/?ALLSTEPS
>
> Here is a link to an example of what I'm talking about using 13 3.5" floppy
> drives playing Popcorn - Hot Butter!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJsfP9QQH-4
>
> It is both hilarious and amazing! I was so enthralled by the 3.5" floppy
> drives making music, that I probably killed an hour or more watching various
> videos using both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives and some hard disk drives
> making music as well.  It is fantastic!  In my wildest dreams of using
> computers, this has never crossed my mind.
>
> If I can find my Ardunio that I stored away when I didn't know what it was
> (that's another story), I plan to do this myself.
>
> You can actually hear the musical notes coming from the stepper motors
> moving the Read/Write Head assemblies!



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