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Floppotron

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Also known as The Floppotron

The Floppotron is a musical instrument created by Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak.

Official website

Silent's Homepage – Paweł Zadrożniak – strona domowa

silent.org.pl →

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Has part
Arduino
Official website
silent.org.pl/home
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uses
MIDI
inception
2016-00-00
fabrication method
repurposing
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8 sections
Contents
  • Development
  • First version
  • 2.0 version
  • 3.0 version
  • Operating principles
  • Song covers
  • References
  • External links

The Floppotron is a musical instrument created by Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak.

It is made of a synchronized array of partially obsolete computer hardware programmed to play tunes. The current Floppotron 3.0 build sports 512 floppy drives, 16 hard drives, and 4 flatbed scanners. The net effect is of a robot orchestra.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Floppotron” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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