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Hi, I'm Dave! I like art, books, writing, and programming computers.

My avatar is a watercolor painting of a rat with an eye patch, martini glass and a stiletto. He's sitting at a table with a book and some pieces of paper. He looks like a scoundrel but is actually totally nice.

The header image is a another watercolor entry from my sketchbook: It's a silly wizard doing some wizard stuff in a room filled with books and bottles. There is an owl behind him.

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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.

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@foone That's awesome! I'm wondering if you can avoid having to focus the camera if you rotate the floppy at the edge and center the camera on the edge?

I made a little cardboard model: 1. Floppy goes in, picture taken of back. 2. Rotate 90 degrees, picture of spine. 3. Rotate 90 degrees, picture of front. 4. Rotate a little more and dump the floppy.

The camera distance remains the same without distortion and gravity does the alignment. Hopefully. I have no idea how finicky this would be. 😅

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