Side Project: Floppy drive pencil holder
- Trent
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M
- DT Pro Member: -
Hello all, I wanted to show you a nifty project I did this weekend.
So, I remember seeing somewhere that someone had made a pencil holder with some old floppy drives, and I wanted to try it out myself. All you need are 5 floppy disks (I used 3 1/2 size), and 12 zipties (a few extra if you screw up a couple). I made small holes in the side of the sloppy drives, and then ziptied them all together.
The results were pretty good, they aren't perfectly square, so you'll notice a bit of an indent on one of the edges, but it was a simple 20min project. Using the color floppy drives makes it look more vibrant. Here are some of the photos:
Trent
So, I remember seeing somewhere that someone had made a pencil holder with some old floppy drives, and I wanted to try it out myself. All you need are 5 floppy disks (I used 3 1/2 size), and 12 zipties (a few extra if you screw up a couple). I made small holes in the side of the sloppy drives, and then ziptied them all together.
The results were pretty good, they aren't perfectly square, so you'll notice a bit of an indent on one of the edges, but it was a simple 20min project. Using the color floppy drives makes it look more vibrant. Here are some of the photos:
Trent
Last edited by Trent on 20 Feb 2012, 16:51, edited 1 time in total.
- nathanscribe
- Location: Yorkshire, UK.
- Main keyboard: Filco tenkeyless w/blues
- Main mouse: Kensington Expert
- Favorite switch: MX Blue
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Why are they sloppy?
It looks Benetton circa 1987.
It looks Benetton circa 1987.
- kps
- Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Main keyboard: Kinesis contoured
- Main mouse: Kensington Slimblade trackball
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A “flippy” is a 5¼" single-sided floppy that has had an extra notch cut out opposite the write-enable notch so that it can be put in the drive upside down to use the reverse side.ripster wrote:What is a flippy?
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- Location: Belgium, land of Liberty Wafles and Freedom Fries
- Main keyboard: G80-3K with Clears
- Favorite switch: Capacitative BS
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Wait, and here is was expecting you hollowed out one of these floppy drives to make a pencil holder/sharpener:
Or were you talking about floppy disks?
Or were you talking about floppy disks?
- Trent
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M
- DT Pro Member: -
Yeah, on my next one I am going to put the knots on the inside. Sadly, I thought about this after I had finished the project. It is a bit more difficult when it comes to closing the zipties, but would be worth it in the long run. And I kinda like the dotmatrix ink