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On 21/11/13 00:18, George Reynolds wrote: > > Hi > > Being a little bit of a cool person (!) > I really want to try the whole "make music from floppy drives" and > wondered if anybody wanted to help me with my little project. > > I am hopefully getting an arduino for Christmas but I need something > scary called a breadboard and a soldering iron to do the rest. I also > need an ATX PSU and 8 floppy drives which I can probably get myself. I > can possibly get some but not all of the cables as well! > > http://m.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Musical-Floppy-Drives/ > > http://runawaybrainz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/arduino-moppyduino-musical-floppy.html?m=1#more > > Anybody handy with a soldering Iron? ? > Thanks > > > Hi Tandy online sell breadboards etc http://www.tandyonline.co.uk/electronics/prototyping.html?p=1 they also sell some flexible prototyping board that looks like the lay out matches a breadboard so i guess you could build something on a breadboard then transfer directly to the printed circuit board. Tandy also sell soldering irons of various wattage, (could someone advise as to the best wattage to get for mini projects please) http://www.tandyonline.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/?q=soldering+iron Desoldering tool is useful too: http://www.tandyonline.co.uk/vacuum-desoldering-tool.html However modmypi also sell breadboards of various shapes and sizes as well as kits, you can get a really small bradboard for £1.99 https://www.modmypi.com <https://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi-hacking> Modmypi also donate 5% of sales to the raspberry pi foundation. If you are not used to soldering have a practice on some prototyping board first, Where are you based ? If you are able to come to an exeter lug meet then maybe a few people can help you I am sure, http://dcglug.drogon.net/ Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 Exeter Raspberry PI Jam 23rd November - http://dcglug.drogon.net/meetings/ Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam 14th December - http://dcglug.drogon.net/torbay-pi-jam/ I am committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable groups and expect any school or establishment I am involved with to share this commitment. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq