whoa what a great idea seeing as floppy drives are not liked by XP anymore!! gonna go and do this and see how well it goes

FIRST POST!!!

Posted at 10:00 am on Oct 13th, 2005 by Martyn Compton

Now ‘this’ is hacking.
Really really cool!

Transplant some cheapie RC board on this and you are tetherless!!

We gotta race em! A whole league!

Posted at 10:33 am on Oct 13th, 2005 by strider_mt2k

It would be pretty sweet if you could work in an “overdrive” system, like have a 9v battery along with the 1.5v series, and a relay to switch to 9v, and then back to 1.5 – the downside to using boost all the time would be that It would eventually probably fry your car.

Just a thought.

Posted at 11:15 am on Oct 13th, 2005 by Br0

ok i’ve been out for a couple of days, so now that HaD is an indie (i think thats how its put) can you lost the “beta” I don’t think you beta anymore.

But now that i think about it, i guess everything you do, is well beta work

0h y35 1 f0r607, h3h3, 70 u53 7h3 |337.

Posted at 11:28 am on Oct 13th, 2005 by Vo spader

Hack-A-Day’s beta status just makes it that much more a hacker’s site. Leave the beta.

Posted at 1:47 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by alex

“Hack-A-Day’s beta status just makes it that much more a hacker’s site. Leave the beta.”

I don’t understand the reasoning behind that but it doesn’t really bother me either way. I guess it’s always in “beta” because it’s never really finished.

Funny project, definitely takes some creativity to think of this.

Posted at 2:55 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by captsnuffy

I hate spamming the comments like this, but the PSU hackaday meeting is tonight in the HUB. It starts at 8:00pm and if you cant be there watch use here: http://www.psu.edu/ur/cam.html and talk to us via irc (#hackaday on EFNET)

Posted at 3:49 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by fucter

i remember seeing this along time ago. about 2 years. so its kinda old. but its still cool.

Posted at 4:38 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by Magnavoid

Wow,
Bets hack ever. Hardcore.
BTW #4 its 73h |337
haha

Posted at 4:43 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by Orwell84

We used to make these in our electronics class years ago. They are neat little bots that go pretty fast. If you want to check out what we’ve been up to this year check out our site
http://www.sullivanheights.com/
thats us on the main page!

Posted at 4:49 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by n00bmaster

Well for once I won’t be on the irc but i can hold up paper to tjhe web cam if you wnat me to.

Posted at 4:55 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by bird603568

Freakin’ Sweet!!!! Gonna make me two of those and race ‘em!

Posted at 6:13 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by digital

Freakin’ Sweet!!!! Gonna make me two of those and race ‘em!

Posted at 6:17 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by digital

cool, I’m making one for sure.

I wonder what you would have to do for something similar to work with a CD-ROM drive, the floppy motor doestn spin that fast.

Posted at 6:59 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by n3ldan

I attempted to use a cd rom drive. I managed to get the motor to spin, but it has no torque.

Posted at 7:40 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by n00bmaster

Looks like it got way too many visitors :)

Posted at 7:40 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by Liam bowen

why not make a hack a day login instead? so you only have to verify once

Posted at 11:21 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by Alkzy

that is your email, then you could just use a password

Posted at 11:22 pm on Oct 13th, 2005 by Alkzy

What about thursday Nano Hacks? I was looking forward to that.

Posted at 1:32 am on Oct 14th, 2005 by Michael

Not too long ago, I removed the floppy drive from my PC. Never really used it, and I got rid of that cable taking up space inside the box. Starting to look like the end of an era…

Posted at 8:53 am on Oct 14th, 2005 by Chad cloman

what’s a floppy drive? is that like an 8-track or something?

Posted at 11:33 am on Oct 14th, 2005 by happy gilmore

That is brilliant

Posted at 1:34 pm on Oct 14th, 2005 by Johnnylocust

Suprised most of you haven’t seen this before, I’ve known of floppy projects like this for a few years now.

Posted at 2:32 pm on Oct 14th, 2005 by tiuk

oh i’ve seen it before, thsi is jsu thte most in-depth one yet. so how did you get teh CD drive ot spin up? i’m really curious.

Posted at 3:47 pm on Oct 14th, 2005 by n3ldan

How weird is this: Just three days ago I was looking at my bookmark list and saw the link to ‘build a robot out of a floppy drive’. I thought “Hey, I have a floppy drive! I can build a robot”. But the link turned out to be dead. So I figured my drive was just going to have to live out it’s life as a drive and not a robot. But then I see this, goodbye Mr. floppy drive!

Posted at 8:28 pm on Oct 14th, 2005 by John

Long time ago we also did something similar:
(spanish text)
http://www.sorgonet.com/trashing/madmaxfloppy/
It’s funny. Try it!

Posted at 12:20 pm on Oct 17th, 2005 by Drdoom

i started on this, and i can’t get the second motor to spin. i got the main one, but after trying touching the ground wire to pin 20, nothing happened. perhaps some help… the page is from 4 years ago so i doubt the guy that wrote it is still around to help…

Posted at 2:59 pm on Oct 17th, 2005 by macgeek

can some1 explain to me step by step how to do this?

Posted at 2:15 pm on Oct 30th, 2005 by george

Recently I’m also doing project with a 1.44MB floppy drive, but everytime I turn plug in the power the stepper motor would spin to track 00. beside that, I observe there’s somekind of protection which turn off the stepper motor whenever I tries to put some load on it. Does anybody know how to disable this and make it turn as I wish?

Posted at 4:57 pm on Dec 8th, 2005 by X-TRo