Make an RFID-enabled Floppy Disk!
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2022
- Using retro tech is popular in escape rooms, and I needed some 3.5" floppy disks for a 1990s-themed escape room puzzle which players could insert into a computer and read and write files onto.
But, rather than rely on the original magnetic media, I decided to modify the disks and replace the magnetic platter with an RFID chip which could be easily read from an Arduino and a cheap MFRC522 RFID module embedded in the drive instead. This video shows how I did it. 
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This is so awesome. The springy metal part was like retro asmr.
Love the idea 👍
BTW you could use RFID stickers instead of dismantling plastic tags🙂
Lol, yes that's an excellent point! I even have some rolls of RFID stickers lying around that I could have used.... I just have so many of these blue fobs that come with every RFID reader I buy, and I just happened to notice that the diameter of the plastic cover exactly matched with the diameter of the hole left by the floppy disc hub. But you're right that using a sticker would have been less destructive ;)
@@PlayfulTechnology Hi ! Do you know which signal is better ? Stickers or plastic tags ? Thank you for sharing these great ideas :)
@@mathieubauer The tag contained inside the blue fob is basically identical to the sticker, so I wouldn't expect there to be any difference between them. The white credit card-styled tags have a bigger aerial, so typically a slightly longer range.
you are correct with how it's got it name, that's actually one of the latter generation disks the case on the previous models where just as wiggly or floppy, so it the name made a lot more sense then as the whole thing would flop around just as easily as that inner bit.
amazing
Where will I be able to play your escape room? :D
Awesome video, as always! But please use RFID stickers next time 😂 watching you cut that blue plastic thingy with scissors made me scream at the screen
would love a video on programming rfid tags to open maglocks
scratch that I've just seen you have already done one!
Love you did this, but you're breaking my heart as I was working on exactly this for quite some time!
Also excited to see if you arrive at the same problems I did (the floppydisk drive eating your RFID signal).
10 points for baiting me in for the next video 🙂
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Next time, if you don't have the RFID stickers, it would be better to cut away a fitting portion of the magnetic platter and its protective felt if need be, and then just place the RFID inside of it. (Tape the platter in place, so it cannot be rotated.)
Cool project and nice video. In the computer world the floppy in "floppy disk" referred to the ability to move it between computer instead of a Hard disk that cannot easily be moved between computers.
Alastair is correct, the 'floppy' moniker refers to the data disc inside the plastic housing. Earlier floppy disks were in floppier casings so more obviously floppy.
The biggest problem I see here is trying to avoid making tech savvy nerd's head explode when the RFID calls up a massive audio/video file, (oh, and 3D graphics and schematics), saved elsewhere that is too massive to have ever fit on one of these.
Wait, is that really a problem or half the fun?
..... why though? This looks silly. You have a perfectly good floppy disk and ruined it. Plus, he second someone saw it they ould know it was a butched floppy disk. You appear to talk about these like they are some weird unknown technology, yet appear to be old enough that you would be familiar with them.
If you really must use RFID instead why not leave the magnetic media inside, and just shove an RFID stick inside the floppy disk not in the centre; then it would at least appear to be a normal working floppy disk.
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