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Arduino Controlled Musical Floppies!
01-28-2014, 04:51 PM,
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Arduino Controlled Musical Floppies!
I decided this needed some documentation, so here it is. I have my own personal system, and the group has a system. I will be linking videos to both. All concepts are the same.

I began by wiring all the drives. They require 2 wires each for 8 floppies. For those who have been with the project, we only used 7. Tomorrow I will add one final drive. For power, a 5 volt supply with at least 3 amps is required. To hook up, simply wire 11(GND) and 12 (EN) together with a jumper, enabling the drive. skip 4 pins and wire a lead to the next 4, the top two being direction and step. These go to the controller. The bottom two are ground and can be commoned with all others. 5 volts is supplied to the 4 pin header. Pins 2-13 digital and 0-3 analog are used as inputs in pairs starting with 2 and 3. Moppy is then uploaded to the host PC and the arduino and all is connected to power and the USB connected to the PC. Moppy is ran and a midi file and com port selected. Then hit play and enjoy!

As always, come down and have a play around with it! Maybe we have some composers who would want to play their piece or make one for the system.

Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMimLtiwzw -personal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ktlH_Oqnfc -group

Tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6tuMn5sPyM -tutorial
https://github.com/SammyIAm/Moppy -programs
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01-28-2014, 10:03 PM,
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RE: Arduino Controlled Musical Floppies!
I was thinking...it might be cool to turn this into a type of juke box for the space. We could rewrite the song to MIDI application and snazzy it up a bit. Users could choose just tunes, tunes played by the floppies, or both. We need some good tunes down there anyway...plus it makes a great display piece. Just a thought.
-N8

"I built it because I didn't know I couldn't"
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01-29-2014, 09:02 PM,
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RE: Arduino Controlled Musical Floppies!
(01-28-2014, 10:03 PM)n8cutler Wrote: I was thinking...it might be cool to turn this into a type of juke box for the space. We could rewrite the song to MIDI application and snazzy it up a bit. Users could choose just tunes, tunes played by the floppies, or both. We need some good tunes down there anyway...plus it makes a great display piece. Just a thought.

Great idea, aaand as requested...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgVro7fciB8 - Game of Thrones
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