Note: This project is current a work in progress. This page is likely to change as I progress.
Overview
The goal of this project is to build a set of “musical” floppy disk drives. That is, to be able to use a floppy disk drive as an instrument that plays notes via MIDI. Using a few of these drives I can even play entire songs.
Posts
- Part 1: Getting Started with Musical Floppy Drives
- Part 2: Building Custom Floppy Drive Power Cables
- Part 3: Building Musical Floppy Drive Breakout Boards
- Part 4: 8 Musical Floppy Drives Play “Cara Mia Addio”
- Part 5: Controlling Musical Floppy Drives Directly via MIDI
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Software
The software that drives the musical floppy drives is Moppy by SammyIAm. You can find the GitHub repository here.
Note: As of May 18, 2017 this project has stalled and I’ve moved on to other things. That doesn’t mean it won’t ever get finished, but I am not actively working on completing it at the moment. Sorry!
