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foone , vor 12 Tagen an Random Englisch

I don't want to re-host it on mastodon because it's just a silly video, but if you wanted to see the answer as to why my police terminal has a "STA LIN" button, I put a video (with transcript) of it on tumblr (reposted from an old twitter thread):

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/754560682077388800/i-dont-think-i-ever-put-this-on-tumblr-but

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

I wonder if you could clone a FlashPath floppy disk emulator but as a PCB.
Youd need a hole in the middle for the spindle, but if you could keep the height down and do some magnetic coils at the right place, it could work?

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!

I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.

That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.

foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

Having one of those fun days at work where I have to ask "hey, is the edison cylinder phonograph supposed to be on?"