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Dec 21, 2010
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10:04 AM
Vinay Arun
The idea for this project was born from an unfinished website which had some important details missing. In essence the idea of converting a floppy disk drive into a small vehicle which could be made by someone just starting out in robotics, or even a kids summer camp, is easy enough to do once the practicalities of switching on the motor without having it connected to a PC is worked out.A look at the pinouts of a standard floppy drive came in very useful and it has been simple to establish that all we need to do is to ground pins 12 and 16 on the edge connector and if you're as lucky as me, just supply the drive with 5V on its power connector. Once you've taped up the write protect switches the drive spins up immediately.To identify the pins just have a look at the PCB around the area of the...
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10:02 AM
Vinay Arun
1. Building materials2. Aesthetics of uniformity3. Bangalore mega plan4. Nandita's design sketches5. Measuring sustainability6. Tarred vs cobblestoned7. Sanitation for rural india8. A conversation9. Nandita's portfolio10. Online sanction...
