The process of hacking the floppy drive to read the SD card involves removing some of the pins in the cable inside the drive and bending others up. You can see this in the second image above.

DIYer Charles originally created this USB floppy disk with one of those promotional business card flash drives. He took out the circuit board and put it inside a floppy's case (actually, he had to ...

There’s also an internal floppy drive that’s had its eject mechanism cleverly motorized, along with a modified USB battery bank that should keep the whole show running for about an hour.

What’s wrong with the floppy? Floppies are on the way out because the disks have such a measly storage capacity and are prone to failure of the moving parts inside. Software companies are moving ...

This fun USB drive was made by Charles Mangin from Option8, and he managed to get a USB drive inside a 3.5 inch floppy.

Buying a 3.5-inch floppy drive today Windows 11 computers don’t come with floppy drives, so if you want to use floppy disks on a modern PC, you’ll need to buy a floppy drive.

When tinkerer Rossum needed a floppy drive for his Atari 400 computer, he decided to modernize it. Gone is the giant, clanking Atari 810 and its slow 5.25-inch floppy disks. In its place is this ...

The setup uses 29 disks, for A-Z, !, shift, and space. It’s all stuffed inside a SCSI disk enclosure which helpfully provides a power supply along with the classic beige 90s aesthetic.

The designer uses (and recommends) a retro-inspired Raspbian 95 operating system, which mimics Windows 95. There are other ...

To use a Floppy Disk Drive on a Windows 11/10 laptop or desktop computer, you can download the Driver or create a Virtual Floppy Disk using these free tools.

Each floppy drive is programmed to emit specific tones by controlling the stepper motor inside, which moves the read/write head to different positions.

As to how a floppy drive is able to read an SD card, that’s where the computer gets tricked. The connector that normally links the floppy drive to rest of the computer has almost identical pin ...