There was all the time one thing intrinsically satisfying about ejecting and inserting a floppy disk, which is one thing most of us now not get to expertise. That upset Igor Brkić, so he constructed this interactive sport that includes shifting floppy disks round an array of drives.
Floppy Flopper is a giant welded-steel contraption that incorporates 9 floppy disk drives organized in a 3×3 grid. The participant begins with a handful of floppy disks in numerous colours. When the gameplay begins, the indicator gentle above a random drive will illuminate in a selected shade. The participant should then insert an identical floppy disk into that drive in a set period of time after which the method repeats. As the sport progresses, the period of time obtainable decreases. The participant’s rating is predicated on the variety of profitable insertions.
To make that work, Brkić designed a customized management board for every floppy disk drive. It doesn’t have to learn a disk’s full information and as a substitute simply checks the write safety and density holes. These are sufficient to create distinctive identifiers for the colours used within the gameplay.
The drive controllers then talk with a central controller, which handles the sport logic. That central controller additionally has a show to indicate the rating and a giant button to start out a sport.
If you wish to construct your personal Floppy Flopper, Brkić uploaded the code and design information to Bitbucket.
