Comments on: Floppy drive RC car

By: unsecured wifi

unsecured wifi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:19:59 +0000

thanks for this info taken ages to find this.

By: X-TRo

X-TRo — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:57:03 +0000

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?

By: george

george — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:15:47 +0000

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

By: macgeek

macgeek — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:59:04 +0000

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…

By: Drdoom

Drdoom — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:20:11 +0000

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

By: John

John — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:28:55 +0000

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!

By: n3ldan

n3ldan — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:47:55 +0000

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.

By: tiuk

tiuk — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:32:23 +0000

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

By: Johnnylocust

Johnnylocust — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:34:40 +0000

That is brilliant

By: happy gilmore

happy gilmore — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:33:30 +0000

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

By: Chad cloman

Chad cloman — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:53:15 +0000

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…

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:32:05 +0000

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

By: Alkzy

Alkzy — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:22:14 +0000

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

By: Alkzy

Alkzy — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:21:28 +0000

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

By: Liam bowen

Liam bowen — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:40:58 +0000

Looks like it got way too many visitors :)