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“These aren’t the drives you’re looking for…”

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Earlier tonight I saw this video of two floppy disk drives performing The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme):


While this has been done before, it is a lovely piece of hardware hacking by Silent, using an Atmel ATMega microcontroller to change the frequency of the stepper motor in the floppy disk drive.

I think this would be a great piece of kit for a GCSE/A-Level Computing class to play around with!

Written by Tom

29 September 2011 at 9:01 pm

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