I haven't.  There is a web site somewhere where aomeone shows how to use
the control board of the floppy to control the motors (so you can skip
the motor drivers, etc), and when I was a cub scout den leader I was
mentally putting one together with a 12c508 (I've got lots) and an IR
receiver with a whisker or two.  I figured with junk floppies they could
be built for under $10 each, which is easily in the budget of a cub
scout den.

I've still thought about it from time to time, but power issues still
bug me.  Floppy drives are not meant to be power saving, but then no one
is going to complain if a $10 robot only lasts 1/2 hour on 4 AA
batteries I suppose.

-Adam

Bala Chandar wrote:

>M. Adam Davis wrote:
>
>>If you can't find a good home, let me know.  I'll see if I can make a
>>simple fun project of them.  They could make cool toys (propeller
>>clocks, remote control floppy drive robots, maybe port the UIR, etc)
>>
>
>Hi Adam,
>
>You have mentioned "remote control floppy drive robots" as one of the fun
>projects that you can build.
>
>Have you already built any PIC based remote control floppy drive robots? If
>yes, are the details available in any site?
>
>The idea is to use PICs and junk 3.5" floppy drives for some fun project.
>
>Regards,
>Bala
>
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