= Floppy Machine =

What does a geek do when faced with a mountain of floppy disks?

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Why, grabs his Lego Mindstorms and builds a robotic floppy machine, of course:

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See the [blog:2011/01/13/23.30 original blog post] and a [blog:2011/06/05/15.30 follow-up about the software driving it].

And then years later, [blog:2015/07/10/17.00 refines it]...  and [blog:2015/07/30/01.30 refines it again]...

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