I was just scrolling through twitter when I came across this…
That led me down a Youtube hole that, for once, I do not regret at all.
The Floppotron is a musical instrument created by Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak. The one in the video is actually his second Floppotron. The first one was far more simple. The Floppotron 2.0 is made up of 64 floppy drives, 8 hard drives and a pair of flatbed scanners. He then writes programs to make them recreate music…
I love it when you get shots of the computer screen and the lines of code just blazing by. There are a few more but I think this, Beat It aside, was my favorite. It works on a couple different levels…