The concept of using computer hardware to create music (and we mean in a very literal sense) isn't new, but there's certainly something of a 'next level' vibe to Paweł Zadrożniak's Floppotron 2.

Back in the era when floppy drives came with home computers, PCs made a lot of noise starting up. They made a kind of music as the motors in the floppy drives buzzed and clunked, the hard drive spun ...

In a nutshell: The Floppotron 3.0 is comprised of a whopping 512 floppy disk drives, 16 traditional hard drives and four flatbed scanners. It uses new firmware that was written from scratch and is ...

A video of a flashy march with the nostalgic sound of a floppy disk drive (FDD) has been released by Polish engineer and YouTuber Paweł Zadrożniak. Zadrożniak's latest work, which has played the Star ...

As a fan of music, this is pretty cool. Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak has created a “PC hardware orchestra” that plays tunes through floppy disks and other computer hardware parts. The Floppotron 3 ...

While the floppy disk may now be defunct, Paweł Zadrożniak has found a new exciting way to put this old school tech to use. And the outcome is just mind-boggling. Putting together 64 floppy drives, ...