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When I was a kid growing up in rural Yorkshire, one of the regular attractions at local fairs was a huge steam-powered organ<\/a>: a baroque monstrosity of pipes, horns, and whistles that would parp out classical tunes to the delight of onlookers. I don\u2019t know if steam organs are still a thing, but if they\u2019ve been retired then I have the perfect replacement: the Floppotron \u2014 a mammoth \u201cPC hardware orchestra\u201d that plays music using only electric motors.<\/p>\n

Like a fairground organ, the Floppotron is unwieldy, massive, musically unsubtle, and a complete joy to behold. It\u2019s the work of Polish engineer Pawe\u0142 Zadro\u017cniak, who\u2019s been building various iterations of the instrument since 2011. The first Floppotron consisted of just a pair of floppy drives playing The Imperial March from Star Wars<\/em><\/a>, but its most recent incarnation \u2014 Floppotron 3.0 \u2014 contains a full orchestra of PC peripherals: 512 floppy disk drives, 16 hard drives, and four flatbed scanners. It is immense<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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