{"id":2262,"date":"2011-02-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jboitnott.com\/phantom-of-the-floppera\/"},"modified":"2020-04-14T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:55:13","slug":"phantom-of-the-floppera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jboitnott.com\/zh\/phantom-of-the-floppera\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantom of the Floppera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this awesome video of what happens when a true geek, and musical fan, gets bored.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">People have made floppy drives sing before, but this is my personal take on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Features two 3 1\/2&#8243; drives and two 5 1\/4&#8243; drives connected to a PIC18f14k50 microcontroller. It interfaces to any MIDI source via MIDI over USB. Straight MIDI would also be possible with an additional small circuit and some minor firmware changes. 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