LEGO Case for Floppy Emu
Chris Siegle has designed an amazing Floppy Emu case made entirely out of LEGO bricks! The case features LED “light tubes” and working buttons. Chris also wrote step-by-step build instructions. Thanks Chris!
I, For One, Welcome Our New Raspberry Pi Overlords
%#@&$! Raspberry Pi! I’ve been a Raspberry Pi hater since they first appeared on the electronics hacking scene a few years ago. I had no strong reason for disliking the Pi, but something about it just bugged me. It was…
Floppy Emu “Scratch and Dent” Sale
Sometimes a Floppy Emu board fails one of my functional tests, and I can’t find the cause of the problem. I have several boards that appear to work fine for 400K and 800K disk emulation (tested on a Mac Plus…
Business License Hell
Nobody ever said selling Floppy Emus to the public would be easy, but for an operation that’s barely one step above an eBay garage sale, the amount of legal hoops I’ve had to jump through is ridiculous. How did it…
Fresh from the Factory
It’s been quiet here in electronics hobby land, but I do have some good news to report: as of now, all Floppy Emu boards are professionally assembled by Microsystems Development Technologies in California, USA. No more hand assembly! It’s a glorious…
Floppy Emu Backlight
I’m something of an anti-backlight guy, and I intentionally designed Floppy Emu with the LCD screen’s backlight disabled. Without the backlight, the text is crisp and the contrast is excellent. With the backlight, the text looks more washed out, and…
Troubleshooting Damaged Chips
There’s a big difference between building one of something, and building a hundred. When building one, the challenge is simply to get the thing working at all. When building a hundred, the focus changes to issues like how fast you…
How to Manufacture a Widget
So you’ve designed an electronic gizmo, it works nicely, and the public wants to buy it. You’ve built one, or ten, or a hundred by hand until your soldering iron wore out, and now you’re ready to have the gizmo…
Taking Care of Business
Today was time for some especially gruesome business-related work. I knew I was overdue for collecting California state sales taxes on Floppy Emu sales, and my recent investigations into having an electronics assembler build the boards brought some new urgency…
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