Media Summary: Adafruit's Limor "Ladyada" Fried and Phillip Torrone will host the we're poking at our 5.25" disk drive and we'd like to get it working with our Adafruit_Floppy code so we can read older diskettes. we had some time this weekend to write the

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Adafruit's Limor "Ladyada" Fried and Phillip Torrone will host the we're poking at our 5.25" disk drive and we'd like to get it working with our Adafruit_Floppy code so we can read older diskettes. we had some time this weekend to write the If there's one thing we believe in strongly here at Adafruit its that if you have an embedded interpreted language running on your ... now that we have successful flux reads, its time to get flexible! we've swapped our SAMD51 feather board out for an RP2040 ... we're going to back up a little in this part - we have MFM and index pulse data coming out of our chonky panasonic 3.5"

ok cats and kittens, we know you missed the whew! so, turns out it was an underspec'ed power supply. so now we know, 500mA is not enough for a OK so part 1 we got our wiring worked out and found an index pulse. Part 2 is we started getting MFM data coming out. Now we're ... having converted MFM pulses to sectors, you may be surprised to know its only a couple lines of code to have a microcontroller ...

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Floppy Interfacing Hack Chat with Adafruit

Floppy Interfacing Hack Chat with Adafruit

Adafruit's Limor "Ladyada" Fried and Phillip Torrone will host the

floppy hacking - fluxengine software support

floppy hacking - fluxengine software support

we're poking at our 5.25" disk drive and we'd like to get it working with our Adafruit_Floppy code so we can read older diskettes.

adafruit floppy featherwing has a rainbow ribbon

adafruit floppy featherwing has a rainbow ribbon

we had some time this weekend to write the

Adding floppy disk support to CircuitPython, step 1

Adding floppy disk support to CircuitPython, step 1

If there's one thing we believe in strongly here at Adafruit its that if you have an embedded interpreted language running on your ...

💾 Real time MFM floppy decoding in arduino 💾

💾 Real time MFM floppy decoding in arduino 💾

OK more

Cross-platform interfacing hardware for floppy disks, part 8 - PINK TIME!

Cross-platform interfacing hardware for floppy disks, part 8 - PINK TIME!

now that we have successful flux reads, its time to get flexible! we've swapped our SAMD51 feather board out for an RP2040 ...

interfacing with floppy disks at low level, part 4

interfacing with floppy disks at low level, part 4

we're going to back up a little in this part - we have MFM and index pulse data coming out of our chonky panasonic 3.5"

low cost and easily available floppy interface hardware, part 9! pico power

low cost and easily available floppy interface hardware, part 9! pico power

time to wrap up today's

The Desk of Ladyada -  RETURN OF THE FLOPPY HACKING (time to write!)

The Desk of Ladyada - RETURN OF THE FLOPPY HACKING (time to write!)

ok cats and kittens, we know you missed the

YAY! floppy disk interfacing part6, a floppy flux milestone! part 7

YAY! floppy disk interfacing part6, a floppy flux milestone! part 7

whew! so, turns out it was an underspec'ed power supply. so now we know, 500mA is not enough for a

Reading floppy disk data, part 3! itsa pulse party

Reading floppy disk data, part 3! itsa pulse party

OK so part 1 we got our wiring worked out and found an index pulse. Part 2 is we started getting MFM data coming out. Now we're ...

parsing and accessing floppy FAT filesystem in arduino

parsing and accessing floppy FAT filesystem in arduino

having converted MFM pulses to sectors, you may be surprised to know its only a couple lines of code to have a microcontroller ...

5.25" floppy reading with fluxengine

5.25" floppy reading with fluxengine

OK after much fluxengine