Desk of Ladyada - Full Time Floppy Fun!
Channel: Adafruit Industries
Date: 02/01/2022

The week between Christmas and New Years is usually a time when we get to play with some new technology since a lot of people are out and many meetings are postponed. but this year we played with some *old* technology! we tried hooking up a 3.5" floppy drive to a microcontroller to see if we can read data from it. we learned a lot about floppy interfacing and also made a library that will connect with greaseweazle software to dump disk images using low cost hardware like the rp2040 pico

The Great Search - Floppy Disk Drive Power Connectors!
https://www.digikey.com/short/f0vp4zzh

OK so one challenge we've disk-covered (ha) doing floppy interfacing is that you need to really power them right. The power connector is a keyed 2.5mm pitch right angle PCB mount part https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berg_connector let's find a connector on Digi-Key we can use in our design!

#deskofladyada #thegreatsearch #adafruit

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