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."

Comments

Your own airplane

[dimss]

You can build your own airplane from 52x CDROM.

Re:Your own airplane

[DrMrLordX]

They make better projectile launchers. Amaze your friends as you fling high-velocity cds into their skulls! Marvel at the hospital bills!

Make sure to use broken drive...

[Max Romantschuk]

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... ;)

Re:Make sure to use broken drive...

[Ripplet]

>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.

I knew I should have saved that spam

[GrodinTierce]

With some old 5.25 inch drives, you can really get some power.

Finally that spam about "Enlarge your 3.5 inch floppy" would have come in handy.

Tierce

I'd build a giant robot

[mharris007]

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!!

A Few Other Pages

[TubeSteak]

Step by Step Instructions
Construction Pictures
5 1/4" FLoppy II Robot
"Floppy II" Robot Plans
Yea, no pictures. I think this site was crawling before /. even got to it... or maybe the subscribers killed it. Subscribers: please mirror this!

reboot, roboot, robot, ribbit

[Tablizer]

Don't tell me, you boot the robot from a floppy, right?

Zip drive robot

[jpm242]

I build a cool rover with parts from my IOMega Zip drive, but it started making this wierd clicking sound...

JPZ3

World Domination

[birdman666]

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.

Re:Bean there, done that...

[Lumpy]

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.