Daft Punk - Aerodynamic on eight floppy drives - General

[video=youtube;2lq34Ob7Gsg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lq34Ob7Gsg[/video] Oh lord this is beautiful.

How is this magic possible?

This is the only form of sorcery I approve of.

[QUOTE=NO ONE;42852217]How is this magic possible?[/QUOTE] By carefully driving the read heads of each drive, you can produce different sounds. Sound is just vibration, after all. [editline]13th November 2013[/editline] Hmmm... Use the drives for lower sounds, and use an arc speaker for the high notes... the possibilities here are interesting.

I definitely didn't know floppy drives could make sounds like that. It's quite clever really.

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;42852290]By carefully driving the read heads of each drive, you can produce different sounds. Sound is just vibration, after all. [editline]13th November 2013[/editline] Hmmm... Use the drives for lower sounds, and use an arc speaker for the high notes... the possibilities here are interesting.[/QUOTE] Attach drives to miniature sentries Portal 2 orchestra

[QUOTE=NO ONE;42852217]How is this magic possible?[/QUOTE] this is pretty informative [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFLuqWz86zs[/media]

[QUOTE=Water-Marine;42854501]Attach drives to miniature sentries Portal 2 orchestra[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmkoJGm6y6k[/media]

It's good to see that floppy drives have been repurposed.

[QUOTE=Coffee;42856199]It's good to see that floppy drives have been repurposed.[/QUOTE] Sony sold more than [B]12 million[/B] floppy disks [url=http://mashable.com/2010/04/27/floppy-dead/][i][b]in 2009[/b][/i][/url]

I've always thought the Aerodynamic would convert over nicely to the floppy orchestra. Glad someone with actual talent made it for real.

[QUOTE=daijitsu;42854849]this is pretty informative [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFLuqWz86zs[/media][/QUOTE] Ok so it is software that's manipulating the drive to make music. I thought logically it might have been that, but wasn't sure. Kill two birds with one stone by getting familiar with hardware while making some music. Maybe when I have the motivation, I'll give something like this a try. Seems like a fun hobby. :v:

[QUOTE=NO ONE;42857702]Ok so it is software that's manipulating the drive to make music. I thought logically it might have been that, but wasn't sure. Kill two birds with one stone by getting familiar with hardware while making some music. Maybe when I have the motivation, I'll give something like this a try. Seems like a fun hobby. :v:[/QUOTE] All stepper motors make that noise. You can do it with inkjet printer and scanner motors as well. Floppy drives are just more common because of how plentiful and cheap they are. Plus they are "dumb" drives so its easy to set up. [editline]13th November 2013[/editline] [video=youtube;NJQ2LpUYqqE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQ2LpUYqqE[/video] This one was an easter egg by whoever programmed this scanner.

oh good god I love floppy disk orchestras. this is beautiful.

No one's pointed out that the LED on the monitor is synced to the music as well.

I love this guys shit [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zabL7H2wlc8[/media] My favorite soundtrack ever... On floppys... And it's beautiful.

The mortal kombat one is badadss

I'd be interested to know how he got the blue power LED on the monitor to flash in sync with the floppy drives..

All he did was wire up the access diodes from each drive to the led. Each time they access it lights up. Literally the same thing as the drive's own light itself.

you can do it with a lot of things. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JPBdBIFGNQ[/media] (0:55)