Year 2015

Apple IIc floppy port

Apple SmartPort Pin Directions

How can you deal with signals that might be inputs or might be outputs, in a way that’s safe and won’t damage sensitive electronics? In my last post I described three different types of Apple II family floppy drives. Since…

Apple II logo

Apple II Disk Emulation

I’ve begun looking into the possibility of Apple II disk emulation with the existing Floppy Emu hardware. The recent research project into Lisa floppy emulation turned out well, so why not do it again with another vintage Apple computer? A…

Lisa 400K floppy drive

Lisa Native Floppy Emulation

Lisa floppy drive emulation with Floppy Emu is a success! Begone, evil rotational disk drives, with your failure-prone gummed-up mechanisms. The age of SD card Lisa floppy emulation is here! After a lot of tinkering, it’s now working on both…

Electric Bow Tie with its LEDs off

Anatomy of a Product Failure

Recently I launched the Sonic Bow Tie – the first project I’ve ever designed from the start to be a product, instead of a project that turned into a product by accident. The Bow Tie is an electronic kit with…

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