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Floppy the Robot
Alien54 writes "Build your own Robot for almost Free..... As seen here where there are complete plans [and pictures] to build a robot from a 3 1/2" floppy drive without taking it apart. The floppy drive has all of the motors and electronics you need to get started and compete in a robot contest. With some old 5.25 inch drives, you can really get some power."
Someone found a use for my spare 5 1/2" drives. Geez.
Does this work for 2x CD-ROM drives, too?
Atleast now we can recycle these drives... Anyone up for a /. BattleBots Team?
If you used an old CD or DVD drive you could build a robot with a "la-zer". You could then hold the world ransom for one million...errr...biiiillllion dollars. Muuuuah ha ha ha... muuuuuah ha ha ha...
You can build your own airplane from 52x CDROM.
That server must be a floppy robot doling out bits one by one. And, if you are lucky, it might accidently grab a disk and give out 1.5 megs of data.
Finnaly we have a use for all of these floppy drives. When I built my current computer, I did not put in a floppy drive, even though my case has a special slot for one.
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What the description doesn't mention is that the web pages seem to be hosted by... [drum roll] FLOPPY THE ROBOT! Just two disk swaps per page view!
"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy"
I'd build a giant robot to crush your little 3.5" floppy bots. I'd build a bot out of one of those old Iomega Bernoulli drives.
I will crush all your tiny bots!!
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Mike
I'm going to kick the next person that I see with their karma rating in their sig.
Of course, if the federal government had instituted mandatory Asimov controls in robots instead of deciding that that was "anticompetitive and restrictive", we wouldn't be in this mess.
You can also build your own nuclear weapon using a discarded smoke detector and a cell phone.
They really sting, and could put your eye out.
Don't tell me, you boot the robot from a floppy, right?
Table-ized A.I.
Why deal with wimply 3 1/2 or 5 1/4 converts! Go with 8" floppy! Those thing had AC motors to drive the disk and built like a tank. Plus would stomp the heck out of these wimppy robot drives!
>It's built like a tank
Why would anyone build a floppy drive with a revolving turret on top?
Still, it gives you an advantage in those robot contests I suppose, especially if you use DU ammo.
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And in other news,
Several so-called "slashdot readers" have been
hospitalized with probable blindness after trying
to get a close up view of their freakish toys
in action...
Speech therapist required?!
How... constructive! Everyone knows it's more fun to be destructive! Last time I was bored enough to take apart a floppy drive, I modified it to fire floppy disks halfway across the room. And yes, it still looked stock from the outside. Unfortunately, after a few super-ejects, the force tore the thing apart on the inside. Oh well.
SIGFEH
I build a cool rover with parts from my IOMega Zip drive, but it started making this wierd clicking sound...
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So that's why Steve Jobs took floppy drives out of Macs, to build an army of loyal robots to take over the world. It seems so obvious now.
Nothing from nowhere I'm no one at all
And there was me sitting happily with my 8" floppy hanging off the wall
One word: ouch.
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And in other news,
Several so-called "slashdot readers" have been
hospitalized with probable blindness after trying
to get a close up view of their freakish toys in action...
I've news for ya. Robots have nothing to do with why slashdot readers go blind.