Flight of the Floppy Drives

IMPROVED VERSION: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrp1PALeWCI
(Seriously though, the improved version is like a million times better. Check it out!)

A better camera angle on this one. I'm still getting the hang of arranging music for computer parts, so it's not perfect, but definitely getting closer. I'm looking for suggestions for future songs to do, leave ideas in the comments below!

Github project for code: https://github.com/SammyIAm/Moppy/

Technical details: I wrote a program in Java to interpret MIDI files and pump data over serial to an Arduino UNO (provided by XpertBOB: http://youtube.com/xpertbob) that controls the floppy drives. I've got four 3.5" drives running right now, and some potential 5.25" drives in the wings as soon as I can work out some timing issues.

Tutorial video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6tuMn5sPyM

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• floppy
• music
• flight
• bumble
• bee
• arduino
• disk
• drive

[inflexene]

I was listening for Flight of the Valkyries at first, so it just sounded like noise a few seconds in.

[Sammy1Am]

@inflexene Try the improved one (link in the doobly-doo), its much better.

[BlazeDeval]

when i read comments on this kind of stuff i feel stupid :(

[Sammy1Am]

@BlazeDeval Aww, don't do that. To be honest the knowledge involved here is... pretty much entirely obsolete, and doesn't really serve any practical purpose. It does make for some weird hobbies though, lol. Plus, you've got the Internet, it knows everything! Learn!

[JaredAugerot]

I am not going to lie, all I heard was the rhythm, but the notes just weren't there.

[Sammy1Am]

@JaredAugerot You must have annotations off; you've gotta go check out the improved version, it's like a million times better (link in the doobly-doo). Thanks for being honest though =)

[Sammy1Am]

@SteelFlexInc My knowledge on the subject is limited. I will defer to your expertise.

[SteelFlexInc]

Sounds like anal sex

[mrboom1337]

one thing, HOLY SHBVVCVNSBDHNBJMMBNBNNCDRXYDFC­V NBHJVTR

[Whyupgrade]

Teach me master!

[codeavatar5]

I was expecting flight of the valkyries

[Vattengurka2]

This was the exact purpose of floppy discs.

[KMNKeyboardVault]

What the hell did i just watch this shit is tooo cool

[TheTabofantasy]

Put the floppys inta a cache to get better resonanz