2025-08-11
There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because why not. For anyone born too late to have regularly used one, a floppy disk is a magnetically coated, flexible polyester disk encased in a protective shell. Insert it into a floppy drive, and a magnetic head reads or writes data on the disk. If you've ever wondered why the "save" icon looks the way it does, it's based on the shape of a floppy disk.
To start, polymatt measured and [...]
2025-08-30
This creative concept transforms the 1.44MB floppy disk into modern packaging, protecting today’s terabyte SD cards with a playful retro design. [...]
2025-08-28
YouTuber Ben Jordan demonstrates how to fool AI-powered license plate readers with invisible noise, subverting a surveillance technology that replaces GPS tracking without a warrant.<br /> The a [...]
2025-09-02
Floppy disks linger in Linux through code cleanups, surviving in prisons, retro circles, and industry despite technological advances elsewhere. [...]