Hmm. Not Sammy1Am? Looks the same setup he uses. Or used to use, before going for a more conical layout.

I still can't get the software to do that to work :(

Floppy music is awesome, and the phantom of the floppera or whatever it's called on youtube is awesome.

made we want to play Goldeneye on the N64

Pretty neat

Looks like they have to work on the treble though.

Just think - in 30 years when we all have been using USB flash disks and SSD's, the kids won't be able to do anything like this with our old junk hardware. Hell, they won't even be able to play with CRT's, or hard disk magnets, or RAM/ROM that you can bit-bang, or even mice you could steal the balls out of.

Maybe that's a GOOD thing. I'm not sure how many hours were wasted trying to do this (not that I haven't wasted a thousandfold as many hours myself on similarly worthless jaunts) but I'd have expected something better.

Strangely, if you'd managed to read some data back based on the sound of the floppy under normal access, I'd be more impressed (e.g. side-channel attacks like the smartphone "I know what button you pressed by what the acceleration sensor read" attack).

Sounds like a challenge

I wonder if my "mouse organ" is still in the shed?

Shame DAT drives weren't a bit noisier. 'this tape will self-destruct'

people have been doing that for a while.

Daft Punk's Derezzed on floppy drives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plg_yYsCQM

Epic

Nothing more need be said.

Used to be able to do this on the Amiga

By stepping back past track 0 the head would "ping" against the end stop. Do that at the correct rate to generate a note, and you could get quite a wide range of music. Tended to trash the drives if done too much though, so people would only demo it once or twice. The progarm was called something like "drive music" I think.

Gets a bit iffy at the end

It seems to get a bit iffy there at the end of the video.

They need to get some 8 inch drives, some 3.5 inch drives, and maybe an old dot matrix printer, so they can get a better range.

Maybe even an old daisy wheel, or better still, an old band printer.

Flying robot quadrotors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUeGC-8dyk

I've been meaning to do something like this with servo motors for a while now. Three part harmonies on a motion platform.

IIRC, the Renault F1 team programmed their engine to play 'we are the champions'. And I mean *engine*. This was back before the ECU and general F1 creativity ban had accelerated - at that point the engines would go to 20,000+ RPM, and with essentially no flywheels they could switch between RPMs almost instantly. Nutty stuff - a 900hp music box, and probably a $50,000 performance...

No youtube link as I'm writing from my playbook and am too tired to slog through that sort of thing.

(...and a hearty 'fuck you' to the FIA, for emasculating F1 so much that in a few years the engines will barely be turning over faster than a carbeuretted pushrod V8 with a cast iron block does now in NASCAR...)