When tinkerer Rossum indispensable a floppy expostulate for his Atari 400 computer, he motionless to update it. Gone is the giant, clanking Atari 810 and its slow 5.25-inch floppy disks. In its place is this minuscule copy of the 810 that uses a microSD card instead.
The enclosing was 3-D printed by ShapeWays, and then Rossum gave it a flicker over of beige finish paint, Inside went the card reader, an LPC1114 micro controller, a 3v3 regulator and an LED. Apart from the fiddly building work, that was the easy part.
If this was a modern computer, the entire thing would slip in to a USB port. The Atari 400 uses a sequence connector that - as you can see from the photos - is bigger than the expostulate itself. Rossum automatic things so that the microSD card appears to the P.C. as an form of up to 8 floppy drives.
But that's only gravy. I'd only be cheerful with a newness card-reader that looked similar to a minuscule floppy drive. It's only so darned cute.
A Little Atari 810 Disk Drive [Rossum's Posterous around Laughing Squid and Photojojo ]
Photos: Rossum
See Also:
Floppy Disk as USB Thumb Drive
Floppy Disk Retrofitted as USB Drive
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