[HH] putting Old floppy drives to good use

[Kurt L Keville]

We did something similar to this when the Cambridge Maker Faire joined up with
the Science Festival... we found a DEC 8-inch floppy drive on eBay and built a
Savonius VAWT on top of it..  we also built smaller ones with coffee cups and
CD-ROM drives...  you want to get old drives though; modern drives have 
a diode
so you can no longer backfeed the circuit in our experience...

Quoting Kyle Leslie <fbxxkl at gmail.com>:

> I saw this in the topics for today (for some reason I have digest and not
> where I get the emails directly).
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> But I saw this the other day for floppy drive use.
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> http://hackaday.com/2011/09/27/sustainability-hack-wind-turbine-battery-charger/
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> Relevance? the motor for the blade can be a floppy drive.
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> 1. putting old floppy drives to good use (Tom Metro)
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> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:52:51 -0400
> From: Tom Metro <tmetro+hhacking at gmail.com>
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> A microcontroller and some hacking and you can find a good use for old
> floppy drives:
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> Imperial march played by two floppy disk drives.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE
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> -Tom
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