14 DAY TRIAL // If you have some old floppy drives at home and you don't know what to do with them, here is a suggestion of how you could put them to good use. You could start making music with them.
The video included above has the power to persuade you to bring back that old piece of technology. A smart guy used eight floppy disc drives to create amazing sounds. He reproduced a classical song using nothing else than the technology considered obsolete by many nowadays.
If you were to ask me, Pachelbel's "Canon in D" sounds great performed on floppy drives. I also listened to the original piece, and it's almost identical.
And after a deeper search, I’ve discovered that there are actually a lot of people on YouTube recording cover songs using floppy disc drives, so it has become a trend now.
The cover of Pachelbel's "Canon in D" was made by YouTube user MrSolidSnake745 using stepper motors in eight floppy drives. The user explained the process in a FAQ saying that it used code written by another YouTube user called Sammy1Am:
"What this code does is convert a MIDI file into serial data packets and sends them over to my Arduino Duemilanove… The Arduino receives them and then sends the appropriate channel/floppy drive the information."