Floppier is an embedded Rust project targetting the Raspberry Pi Pico which allows you to play MIDI files on a series of 1 or more Floppy Disk Drives. This project is inspired by Moppy which is a similar project written in Java and C++ targetting the Arduino platform, and the almighty Floppotron.
This project differs from previous implementations by allowing you to expand to a large number of drives and plans to have support for other instruments as well such as Hard Disk Drives and Flatbed Scanners.
Warning
This project is still actively in development, so a lot is subject to change
This project is organized as a Cargo workspace with the following directories:
floppier-server- A Rust program that runs on a laptop or desktop to parse a MIDI file and send MIDI events over USB to the Pico(s)floppier-client- An Embedded Rust program that receives MIDI events from the server over USB and is responsible for controlling the individual Floppy Disk Drivesfloppier-proto- A Rust library that contains shared protocol data structures which are sent in USB packetsmidi- A directory containing some sample MIDI songs and their configuration files