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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."
You can build your own airplane from 52x CDROM.
Floppy drives these days are of really bad quality... I went through something like a drive every two years at almost no use. Then I rescued a drive from an old 286. It's built like a tank, and still works perfectly.
;)
My thoughts on the robot as soon as the page loads...
.: Max Romantschuk
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Who sponsors your feelings?
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.
Step by Step Instructions /. even got to it... or maybe the subscribers killed it. Subscribers: please mirror this!
Construction Pictures
5 1/4" FLoppy II Robot
"Floppy II" Robot Plans
Yea, no pictures. I think this site was crawling before
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Dr. Evil: or perhaps we can make robots that interfere with the loading of web pages. They disallow access so we can all it a "denial of service" attack.. we will bring the world to its knees...
Scott: Uhhh... dad... that's already been done... they're called "slashbots" and its called the "slashdot effect"...
Me: I can't get to the site... can ya tell? :-D
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.
A Related Site With Pictures! /.'ed site, so at least you'll get some usable pics.
He references the
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Don't tell me, you boot the robot from a floppy, right?
Table-ized A.I.
Wonder what would happen with 8"? The extinction of the human race :)
Rus
Cheap UK and US VPS
I build a cool rover with parts from my IOMega Zip drive, but it started making this wierd clicking sound...
JPZ3
--- Worst tagline ever.
It's not the size, its how you use it ;)
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
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
okay, so they're Google Thumbnails
Respect to the AC who brought these to my attention
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
And there was me sitting happily with my 8" floppy hanging off the wall
One word: ouch.
War is one of the most horrible things a human can be exposed to. And one of the worlds largest industries.
Are you sure you want to build a robot armed with a laser? :^P
Actually I did take apart an old 1.5x drive. The motors work nicely off of a small solar panel. The laser module is cute, I wish I had specs. It has a laser diode & drivers, detector for the bounced beam, and coils to steer the beam/detector with a small lens. Cool.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Nah. They're obviously Weapons of Mass Storage.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Should I be worried?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
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.
What I'm suprised at is the need for a the
1 - 7805 Regulator IC
I'm pretty sure most disk drives already have a voltage regulator already on board. The part number is no doubt OEM, but they're fairly easy to recognize, since they come close to the main Volatge, and usually use a capacitor in conjunction.
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Why? cince you have a ultra regulated 5 volt source going into it already why waste parts by adding a 5 volt regulator to regulate a already regulated 5 volt supply?
it doesnt suprise me one bit that there isnt a regulator for any of the regulated supplies coming into the device... remember it's a add-on prephrial for a system that has the powersupply already designed in another module of the system.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Unfortunately, they also weigh as much as my 3 week old baby. I do plan to do some boating this summer... boat anchors maybe?
I dunno. Good luck. I tried that last summer, but the babies kept floating to the surface.
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