Comments on: Floppy connector MMC card slot

By: Cliff Posey

Cliff Posey — Sun, 24 May 2009 20:27:12 +0000

I really enjoyed your blog. I love it when I find out new things or are reminded of old things on a blog,

By: Autoversicherung

Autoversicherung — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:24:35 +0000

Excelent comments. My Favorit Blog. Thank you Autoversicherung

By: no zion no comment

no zion no comment — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:24:07 +0000

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By: Hawk

Hawk — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:25:41 +0000

I saw this idea a while ago, but it only just occured to me today that, because the floppy connector is double sided, and the SD card isn’t, it should be possible to wire up the connector so that the card can be inserted in either orientation. The wires of the ribbon cable could be joined at the board end. I hadn’t seen this idea anywhere, and I thought it might add a little to an already great idea.

By: this is L

this is L — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:17:29 +0000

An ISA slot works too. It’s basically the same type of connector, but soldered to an old motherboard. Got a powered handsaw?

By: jim pruett

jim pruett — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:41:02 +0000

THATS A GREAT FUCKIN HACK!!!!!!!!!

Try to find SD connectors. $50 for 3. GREAT JOB!!!

By: yassir

yassir — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:49:53 +0000

Mr. I want hlep me with my project my project is lock /unlock the MMC .I just know the CMD42 but I does not know the data block strucutre of this CMD please send

By: deathdrone

deathdrone — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:17:36 +0000

Now you should make a wrt54g microdrive reader!

By: Rob Wentworth

Rob Wentworth — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:08:53 +0000

"Shea" asks "... would this be possible to hook directly to a computer?".

Yes! My next hack is an "el-cheapo parallel port SD card reader" using only salvaged floppy and printer cables, and some resistors (no circuit board needed). This should even work with old laptop computers that do not have USB ports.

When complete (soon), I will submit my "el-cheapo parallel port SD card reader" to hackaday. :-)

By: Shea

Shea — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:41:42 +0000

nice project i’m not very good with io or gpio (I dont even know how to locate them) but would this be possible to hook directly to a computer?

By: rilthe

rilthe — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:59:33 +0000

Newbie,just started getting into video formats and its portability prospects.

By: Rob Wentworth

Rob Wentworth — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:55:58 +0000

I have added detailed descriptions to each of the photos. Please excuse the occasional feeble humor (“… with an SD card waiting patiently to mate with the connector.”) ;-)

By: Rob Wentworth

Rob Wentworth — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:11:32 +0000

Regarding using the numeric IP address for my pop server, I already tried that right after posting the comment. It works! I am just glad I looked up the old mail.uanr.com IP address before it changed.

Thanks for the tip, in case I had not already done that!

I wish there was a simple way I could edit previous comments I posted to hackaday, so I could make corrections to correct spelling, reduce redundant wording, etc...

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:53:06 +0000

You should still be able to get your email from your old host – just change the pop3 settings from mail.uanr.com to 70.86.229.151 and you should be good to go.
Neat hack – not sure if I’ll try it though!

By: Rob Wentworth

Rob Wentworth — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:14:23 +0000

Hmm... I just realized that all mail sent to the uanr.com mailbox will be trapped in the old isp inbox forever, because the uanr.com domain transfer means I cannot get mail from the *OLD* mail.uanr.com pop3 mailserver (it was a shared IP address).

Sorry, I will not be able to read or answer any mail y'all sent to uanr.com e-mail addresses after the account was suspended for overtraffic. I was getting 2 GB per hour of traffic and climbing. Was that all real site visits, or some sort of denial-of-service attack?

My account has gotten hundreds of MB of traffic just to the "account suspended" page, and the hits are still coming...

The new uanr.com website (same as the old one) should start appearing in most places by tomorrow, but that depends on IP address caching at various DNS servers.

I am glad you enjoyed the hack. I have many more (lots of notes, photos, screenshots, etc.)... I recently built a CNC machine that uses a stepper-motor to turn the hand crank on an old broken camera tripod, for my dremel tool z-axis... :-)