From the disk drive's perspective, they went from a boring desk job to superstardom!

From a quick search, I found a floppy disk drive can consume up to 34 W, under 1 W when on standby, so this is a pretty insane setup: 34 W * 512 = 17.4 kW ;)

@@pavel9652 , Thankfully you don't to run the floppy drive ALL the time :) or at least under normal operating conditions! LOL

​@@David_Ladd Haha, Floppotron isn't normal operating conditions ;)

@@pavel9652 I don't know where you're getting that from but it's entirely incorrect. 3.5" floppy drives only use a few watts at most. I just found a datasheet for a Panasonic 3.5" Floppy drive and it's rated for 1.5W while reading.

Two even!

And consumes 1.2kW at peak!

That second Estop isn't very dedicated and often daydreams while on the clock and never gets back on time from lunch

@@Lectrikfro so it is redundant in all definitions of the word is what you're saying? :)

@@djgummikuh8895 Sure we had one emergency stop button, but what about the second emergency stop button?

Oh my goodness! That's hilarious. Brilliant observation.

It's basically an enormous electromechanical synthesizer, which is badass

​@@AnomalousVixel More like an electric organ, like an Hammond.

@@giacomoneri1782 Not really like a Hammond. The Hammond generates an electronic signal by electromechanical means, and then plays it through and amplifier and speaker system. Although the floppotron is also electromechanical, it directly excites vibrations in the air. Big difference!

AND PLAYS METAL ON IT!!

I thought exactly the same. I also suspect those were deliberately chosen in powers of two

@@Tentin.Quarantino wow good point lol!

@@Tentin.Quarantino Makes sense. You have to be able to address each one individually, so unless you want to accept waste of address space, make them powers of 2.. :-)

Agreed, I'd buy it.

@@aidenklass9767 hell, i would pay just for a sample pack

Brilliant idea

It wouldn't be the same.

Honestly, I'd definitely buy that!

AHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHH

he became both in a way XD

@@Nichodo Just guessing here, but I suspect "that's the joke" applies.

@@Nichodo yeah, that's the punchline

- On what instrument you want this to be played? - It's complicated...

@@devilaverage6718 "It's too hard. The project might flop."

Mr. Fucik really puts the I in fuck.

This is the reason why he won't be happy, "SEND IN THE CLOWNS!"

​@@ARandomInternetUser08 What a floppy answer 🎉🎉🎉😂

Hi Jeff. You're a little late for the celebration. ;-)

Holy shit, yes, please, please make this happen.

Hello raspberry pi man

Those drives are going to need so many googly eyes.

Don't forget Sam from look mum no computer

You just have to know there was a giant fire at some point haha

@@joshuamontgomery0 Floppotron 2 experienced technical difficulties at one point, smoked components mid-performance. And there were probably similar incidents that went unrecorded in the earlier days.

I believe you'd need something more physical like a SPAS-12 or something.

...There is no MUSIC other than what we make for ourselves... ---John Connor---

@@CannonFodder873 lol

I'm thinking maybe that Dutch mechanical instruments museum where the Marble Machine was displayed

@@starry_lis Oh yes - and an HMI Panel like a juke Box where visitors can choose their favourite song

Sadly nowadays the things considered art and museum worthy are bananas taped on the wall.

@@StormCrusher94 that banana piece was making the point your trying to make. It was great.

@@starry_lis As far as I know it's regularly displayed in museums and was sold for actual money (more than a banana should be), so apparently it was taken seriously enough, so he's not wrong

Nope, never a museum. It should be handed down to next generation forever and ever and never stop playing 😁

Nope, bring it to Look Mum No Computer's Museum Of Everything Else

Look mum no computers museums

I agree. Having this (or the previous floppotron) in a technology museum would be a great asset to get people excited for technology

@@bennylloyd-willner9667 Well there is that mechanical music museum the marble machine made it into, that way it'd still get played and be in a museum where everyone can see it.

Long live the Floppotron!

I too was worried after seeing the video yesterday about the end of Floppotron 2.0. Glad to see v3.0, and the quality is excellent.

Speaking of Marvel I think X-men The animated series Theme song would sound great on this thing

Long live the Floppotron!

How mut mony?

The lord have spoken !

But Sir! How to perform duet if both instruments are in Your kindly hands?!

Hahaha :) - maybe better suggest him doing a dedicated piano for your great videos and make a movie about the making :)

​@@TymexComputing If it's midi compatible, you can use a keyboard to play it. It's kinda of an electric organ, like an Hammond, stepper motors playing notes.

You failed, but I made your failure beautiful

i don't think they cared about that back then. making things quiet was only started in pretty much the 2000 floppy drives are much older than that.

I'm surprised he's not using Amiga 500 drives. Dem things made a racket, but probably since they were not n a sealed drive enclosure and sitting in a hollow plastic PC shell

hahahhahahahaha!!!!!!!!

The noise was not a consideration at all back then.

It should be the music system in the museum. An active display.

@@brasskail5036 probably would start smoking at some point heh

nice pfp

Give it to LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER for THIS MUSEUM IS (NOT) OBSOLETE

@@scienceexclamationmark seconded!

i mean, thats not really hard, but still true

Now put this clip on TikTok and TikTok wil be slightly more impressive than this clip

That’s not saying much

​@@ApMignonne I love your sense of humor!

watching paint dry is more impressive than all of tiktok put together

Some parts would have actually been cheaper because of oversupply and the fact that some parts aren't built anymore and are quite expensive due to rarity today

@@redcrafterlppa303 Yeah floppys were cheap at one time , not now.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

@@redcrafterlppa303 I've been trying to find what 3.5" floppy drives solf for back in the early 80s, but couldn't find anything... to be fair I didn't look TOO hard, but I would have expected it to be higher than buying second hand drives today.

@@redcrafterlppa303 not quite, while thats true the circuits associated to the current arduinos would have ramp up the build...

I know right? I am so glad Pawel keeps it going

Hell yeah! I felt really sad when he retired the old Floppotron!

Agreed, even if I didn't expect you here

Hu ?? It was maybe ... But well Jarrod ... nope .... the truth this is what KZfaq is and must be about and internet anonymous

was

This and gay frogs

Or it was... Good they did not accuse him of copyright infringement

ditto

Me too! Only, in Italian :D

My phone resolution wasn't high enough to work out what it was at first 😂

That's no stack of floppy drives... it's a space station.

clownware

Well the song is named "Entrance of the Gladiators", and it absolutely is a fanfare. It's only because of circuses using it as copyright-free music that it's associated with clowns.

To quote Wikipedia on „Entry of the Gladiators“: „The march demonstrates the state of the art in playing technology and the construction of brass instruments, which allowed fast and even chromatic gears in all instruments and positions.“ So I think this is absolutely the right song.

@@SavageGreywolf Oh I know, but that stigma will never go away and it's part why that startup will almost consistently fool me and throw me for a loop each and every time. Good bit of info, that said!

@@SavageGreywolf I learned something new today. Also, this is the first time I've heard the whole song!

It got rebooted

Yeah i thought when 2 was retired that was it , im so glad it wasnt the end.

Did it actually die or something?

@@blasterdude18 parts of it was repurposed into the 3.0 it seems

It hasn't passed, it has simply evolved.

The King is dead, long live the King! 🎶🎶

@@blasterdude18 yeah, the video was from sometime last week "Time to Say Goodbye, Floppotron 2.0."

Yeah, like that music played on Rollercoaster Tycoon 's Merry Go Round

I got that same feeling, then with the juxtaposition of what it's made from, just wow. Imagine if one of the old time calliope builders, could see what is simultaneously a parody and a tribute to their work. So meta... does that mean anything anymore?

There is a organ museum in my town. Would love to see this in an exposition there!

It really reminds me of a geek version of the old Decap organs.

Please see "Bohemian Rhapsody" on a Calliope kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gLqeeqxnsNTbZYU.html

This could probably speak with the right files and can definitely be broken with others, so I doubt that will happen

@@propapanda420 "whats the worst they could do?"

@@Ben-li9zb they can send files that stress the thing without any real musical content

@@robegatt I know, the quotes were there to add to the joke, we don't want someone bricking 300 floppy disks because of their funny program

@@Ben-li9zb black midi

Spread the code!

Master Boot Record feels almost obligatory. I hope they do.

or The Algorithm

Yes PLEASE! It is meant to be

Heavy metal never died. It was just never evenly synthesized.

There are also the circuit breakers. I read some assembly language code where several subroutines had two STOP commands at the end. The second STOP had a comment "to prevent skidding". (What was nice, is we could actually modify the code in RAM to replace a few lines before and the first STOP with code that could jump to another subroutine.)

I am most impressed with the difference in cablerequirements for the floppies. They were the standard once connected to many boards, but now they are way slimmer and only do the neccesary stuff.

@@philreinie8976 what architecture was this 👀

makes you wonder what 4.0 will have added over 3.0🤔

I'm 73 and laughed till hiccups occured!

And that, my friend, is quality content!

Simply FLOPtastic!

I think there is some improvement needed before it finished. It is still in beta and I think he will probably work on fixing up some stuff concerning audio as some sounds were pretty loud. I think the floppy disk drives were going on full blast for most of it so the hard disk drives didn't get as much volume. If you think that it is good already, it's gonna get even better.

Pikapetey watches floppatron 😳

Now it's two of us Who cried...

Me too!! MAN!! You really dropped a bomb on me!!

@Parrie Jenkins Maybe because of this video's song, the first thing I thought of was that circus orchestras have a long tradition of playing Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" to signal to the rest of the circus that there's an emergency without alarming the civilians.

@Parrie Jenkins My personal favorite hospital PA code, which I learned when I was hospitalized in Boston 10 years back, was when they would page Dr. Brown. According to a chart posted at the nurses' station that patients were probably not supposed to be able to see, it meant there was an urgent need for the biohazmat cleanup team in the lobby.

* blink * ...sorry, *_NEW_* thing? You don't know why ending a phonecall is called "hanging up", do you.... This _was_ normal. Everyone in my generation knows and loves the sounds of a fax machine, a modem, and an answering machine. To some of us, the norm of dilligence never went away. It's not "well established" as music, it was COMPOSED as music, unlike the empty repetition of pointless nonsense that is shite like tiktok. This is the love of an era given form through sheer force of will, dedication to discipline, and hard work. To quote a hilarious phrase from the interrim : "you didn't build that." We did. We're not dead YET.

@@InservioLetum ……

@@InservioLetum Imagine being so mad over nothing that you have a cow over someone who has made a very kind, heartfelt comment about a machine we have all been excited to see the new iteration of, fitting and fussing over the phrasing of a sentence that may have been written by someone who has English as their second language. Sure, let us get nostalgic about floppy drives and fax machines (though not dot matrix printers, those were horrid), but maybe chill?

Failing is a Beta-Feature?

Concerning third statement. You mean two left columns? Coz obviously not the rest due to color inversion. But there are too many white keys between D# and F#

if i was reading it right the PSU's was rated above 1000 watts given the age of the tech involved i think having an emergency off is a smart idea ive seen old parts just burst into flames and electrical fires are no joke.

you're*

Trending again since 2 days ago?

Oh heck yeah, that song would be awesome on the floppotron! [BIG SHOT] would also be really cool too

@@heyhellyco How do you think they might do the voice samples?

@@spearmaster_ Ah man, hadn’t thought of that one, can’t really think of an instrument that would best be used for that 😅

@@spearmaster_ With precise enough timing and pitching, i bet the bank of floppy drives could probably replicate a very robotic human voice, similar to how you can sometimes hear voices in songs that are directly converted to midi from waveforms

It already has, my friend. The wonderful museum of the information superhighway!!!

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER 👆🏻

​@@veri8tor my thought exactly!