hey everyone! after taking care of some fruit-biz-stuff and releasing some exciting new products, we're back to fun...FLOPPY FUN! we want to add floppy writing support but our wiring harness was a little unwieldly - thankfully our floppy featherwing we designed last week arrived and after some quick soldering and pin define changes, it works just as well. now we can continue on our floppy journey - expect MORE 💾💾💾 soon as we continue development. Watch and star this github repo to get updates as they happen https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Floppy :)

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

https://youtu.be/hcgtolaM_6g

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/01/01/low-cost-and-easily-available-floppy-interface-hardware-part-9-pico-power/

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

https://youtu.be/OpAN5FSmPBw

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/01/01/cross-platform-interfacing-hardware-for-floppy-disks-part-8-pink-time/

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

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/01/01/yay-floppy-disk-interfacing-part6-a-floppy-flux-milestone/

https://youtu.be/IrSwMuFk-2c

reading floppy disk data part 6, MFM sector decoding

https://youtu.be/mE-77nEXbGc

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/01/01/reading-floppy-disk-data-part-6-mfm-sector-decoding/

reading raw floppy disk data part 5, at night the greaseweazles come

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/01/01/reading-raw-floppy-disk-data-part-5-at-night-the-greaseweazles-come/

https://youtu.be/e6v7Q4h5JBM

interfacing with floppy disks at low level, part 4

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/12/30/interfacing-with-floppy-disks-at-low-level-part-4/

https://youtu.be/a-zH9wdNwnE

Reading floppy disk data, part 3! itsa pulse party

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/12/29/reading-floppy-disk-data-part-3-itsa-pulse-party/

https://youtu.be/kynoLRQpDnU

Adding floppy disk support to CircuitPython, step 2

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/12/28/adding-floppy-disk-support-to-circuitpython-step-2/

https://youtu.be/frnJ7pWr5Zg

Adding floppy disk support to CircuitPython, step 1…

https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/12/28/adding-floppy-disk-support-to-circuitpython-step-1/

https://youtu.be/ceyM6vYpT74

Adafruit Floppy is a project to make a flexible, full-stack, open source hardware/software device for reading, archiving, accessing and duplicating floppy disk media. It joins a family of open source hardware and software such as greaseweazle and fluxengine, and will attempt to increase the availability and accessibility of floppy disk controllers by: porting the greaseweazle / fluxengine firmware to Arduino so that it is less tied to specific hardware, adding firmware support for the RP2040 chip / low cost pico, adding hardware support for reading apple ii disks including index sensing, adding woz/a2r support to greaseweazle / fluxengine, and investigating analog flux data acquisition methods for repair of damaged disks. all of this with permissively licensed hardware and software so folks can re-create without licensing agreements, NDAs, or discussion.

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Floppy

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