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![Rochester Maker Faire RITlug table.](media/makerFaire/20181117_091159.jpg) |
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# Introduction |
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A few weeks ago I presented my [musical floppy drives](https://jrtechs.net/projects/musical-floppy-drive-build-log) |
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at the [Rochester Maker Faire](https://rochester.makerfaire.com/) with [RITlug](https://ritlug.com/). |
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Wow, that sentence had a total of three links-- you should check them out:) This post is a |
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quick recap of the event and a project update for my Musical floppy drive project. For those of you who |
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don't know, Maker Faires are community gatherings where people "celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset". |
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# Project Background |
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Musical floppy drives are floppy drives wired to an Arduino to play music. I initially started with two floppy drives; |
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however, that grew to 8 drives very fast. |
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<iframe width="100%" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y5msiFa54Ug" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> |
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I currently have 10 floppy drives stacked together in a tower like structure so that it is easier to take to places |
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like the Maker Faire and Imagine RIT. |
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![Rochester Maker Faire RITlug table.](media/makerFaire/20181117_092417.jpg) |
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# Future Project Upgrades |
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Although the 10 floppy drives are quite loud in a single room, people typically found it difficult to hear at the |
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Maker Faire. This was largely due to the noisiness of the hundreds of people at the convention center. To fix this |
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in the future I want to bring a small amplifier for the floppy drives. |
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The second improvement which I plan on making is creating some form of web application where people can |
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request music for the floppy drives to play. |
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# Cool Projects at the Maker Faire |
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Although there were a ton of really cool projects at the Maker Faire, I did not have the time to spend a lot of |
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time exploring the faire and taking pictures of everything. However, I want to share two really cool projects |
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that I saw at the Maker Faire. |
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## HatChan |
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![HatChan](media/makerFaire/20181117_095844.jpg) |
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This is a project that one person is calling HatChan. This is a hat equipped with a ton of LED lights, and |
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a fully functioning wireless access point. When you connect to his access point, the captcha portal takes you |
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to a 4chan esk site where you can upload pictures -- mostly memes. |
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## 8-bit Computer |
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![Rochester Maker Faire](media/makerFaire/20181117_120948.jpg) |
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This one person brought a home made 8-bit computer to the Maker Faire. What I find the most impressive |
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about this project was that the person who made it is only a sophomore in high school. |