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Musical Floppy Drive
Parts
Arduino UNO (Try work mega working)
Floppy Drive x 6
pc power pack or 5v dc power pack
Male to Female Jumper Wire Ribbon Cable or floppy cable
Optional Parts
Floppy Drive FDD Internal Power Splitter Cable
Standard Jumper Caps
Tools
Power drill
drill bit 1 or 1.5 bit
Stanley Snap-Off Blade Knife Cutter
Software
1) Arduino Software - Download
2) JDK 7u4 with NetBeans 7.1.2 - 32 bit Download 64 bit Download Windows
3) Arduino Moppy Download
4) Timer 1 - Download
5) MoppyDesk Download
6) RXTXcomm Serial Driver - Download
Optional Software
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Midi Song Pack
Step 1. first get your power supply and look at the 24 pin cable plug now put wire from GREEN wire to BLACK wire as shown
on the image.
Connect these two wires will my the power park activated.
Step 2. now look back floppy drive there should 34 for pin the the floppy cable shown on the image.
There 2 rows on pins
2 to 34 Pin (Red) Active Pin 1 to 33 Ground (Black)
Step 3A. Take a Floppy Drive cable cut end of it the size with twist in the cable (1.)
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Step 3B. Cable with end off
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Step 3C. now street the cable
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Step 3D. now cut down the cable so you have 34 cables (be very careful as the blade very sharp)
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when finish cutting look look this
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Step 4. now count the wire you cut and get
11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20 starting for left side (yellow dote end top at the red line)
over wires you cut then off or been over and on type on them
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Step 5. now connect 11 and 12 giver
then
now connect 17 and 19 giver
pin 18, 20 for Arduino
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A, floppy B mode to activate it The light of the floppy drive should turn on made it in mode B
B, floppy Direction
C, floppy Step
D, Floppy Grounds
Step 6, now do step 3 to step 5, 5 more time
Step 7, now take your cable and power cable and plug then into floppy drive
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some floppy drive cable have one pin cover so you have had to drill it out with 1 or 1.5 drill ( very care when doing this as only want
the cover )
Step 8. now take your Arduino and put the wire form the floppy into it
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A, put the Foppey Ground to - Ground of the Arduino
B, put the 17 pin cable to pin 3
C, put the 20 pin cable to pin 2
D, Don't do anythen it this
( I only done one drive here but same thing for all driver)
20 pin cable to pin 4
17 pin cable to pin 5
20 pin cable to pin 6
17 pin cable to pin 7
and so on Arduino 13 pin max
Arduino
Pin
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Floppy
Drive
1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6

Step 9 Establish a connection to your Arduino.
Download, Arduino Software - Download and Timer 1 - Download and Arduino Moppy Download
First thing install Arduino Software (Guide Here) after finish
download Timer 1 and it in (Documents\Arduino\libraries)
Download Arduino Moppy and put in Go to (Documents\Arduino)
step 10, now open Arduino software and open your Arduino Moppy
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Step 11, next upload this to Arduino by using icon or ctrl + u
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Step 12, now download JDK 7u4 with NetBeans 7.1.2 - 32 bit Download 64 bit Download Windows and installed it
Step 13, next download RXTXcomm Serial Driver - Download
Step 14, now go to C:\Program Files\Java
I have two file always get highs one ( jdk1.8.0_05)
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open the file jre
open the file lib
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cope the RXTXcomm to this folder
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now back one so in jdk1.8.0_05\jre
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and then open bin
now cope the rxtxParallel.dll and rxtxSerial.dll
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Step 15, now open NetBeans
open file go down to import project then form zip
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now click cancel
now close the project
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Step 16, Download MoppyDesk Download
now go to documents and find NetBeansProjects and open the file
now cope MoppyDesk to this folder
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Step 17, now open NetBeans and file then open project ( ctrl + shift + o )
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now click moppydesk then open project
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Step 18, now click the play icon
now should have box come up
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Step 18, playing
Fist look top said Arduino port this it the com port you upload code earlier (Step 11) to Arduino
then click connect
click load sequence
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now get your song some mid in moppydesk or Midi Song Pack
click song then open
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then click start
Congratulations!!! You have now a musical floppy...
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