Re:Raspberry Pi Floppy Controller Board
by bellyfullofbac on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:09AM
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Now I want to build a floppy drive into my car, and each 3.5" disk would be an "album" - of course it would just be a cartridge that the system would recognize to play a particular set of files which are stored internally.
It would amuse my friends on car trips, not that I have any of those...
I see a problem tho, the floppy don't go nicely with the car enviroment and they will probably become unreadable pretty fast.
I had a similar idea but i wanted to embed small nfc tag into some floppy disk and use a broken floppy reader that i own with a tag reader inside the gut of the reader reusing only the eject mechanism and the led, (i will be missing the nice motor noise tough...).
I'm also experimenting with other cartridge-style meccanism
Echoes of FlashPath (have one somewhere):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath
It is an adapter that takes flash cards (e.g. SmartMedia) and can be used in 3.5" drives.
I planned to do that with old 64 MiB or 128 MiB SD cards and a car radio with SD support: One SD card = one album.
However, nobody still makes SD cards this small, and using a 16 GiB card for 1 album seems wasteful :)
But floppy disks would be much nicer.
Try aliexpress you can bulk buy 4gb ones for about a dollar each.
Re:Raspberry Pi Floppy Controller Board
by ficklepickle on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:23AM
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We would be friends. Any pics?
Could also do it with barcodes
i did this with toggle switches in my car, and they're binary, so the 4 gave me 16 options... per mode, i had a mode button too, in radio mode it was either podcasts, a few SDR options, and a few mp3 music genres
then i decided the toggle switches were gonna get embedded in my face if i got in a wreck so i took them out ... there's a reason all the buttons in cars are round and plastic, I guess.