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

ok cats and kittens, we know you missed the floppy hackin’ so you should be glad to know we’re BACK on the floppy kick, with some timer driven code for capturing and generating flux pulses. we’re not 100% sure we need timers to do it but we were having a few issues with writing floppies consistently so figured this could help. today we wrote an ibm mfm floppy and then read it on another floppy drive connected to our computer. being able to write floppy disks also means we may be able to categorize disk drives better since we can test writing and reading pulses. we also put together one of our ’Floopers in order to properly test a laptop drive - successfully! finally, we saw this nifty cut-tape-removal tool on twitter and we’re going to try jlcpcb’s 3d printing service to get a couple made since they seem super handy The Great Search - 26 pin 1mm FPC cable for laptop floppy drive In order for our floppy access