Greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level

Or FluxEngine.

http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/

Just stick a pin header directly on an off the shelf fpga dev board and that's the hardware done.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/aDKggy7UAHsyLj717

Although half of the awsomeness is that lack of hardware, I did make up some PCBs to adapt FluxEngine to various 8" floppies. Mostly not tested yet. I have some of each of the different kinds of drives but haven't finished the project of fabricating nice drive enclosures and power supply hookups, and of course getting the drives to work at all.

github.com/bkw777/FluxEngine_Kit

A must-have companion tool:

https://github.com/jfdelnero/HxCFloppyEmulator

I've learned about Greaseweazle in some previous thread here on HN, bought it, and had a really good time browsing through some of my old Amiga floppy collection. It works really well.

Use a greaseweazle often, absolutely necessary kit for archiving esoteric data from old floppies. Finding a working drive is often the hardest task.

What is "flux"? It's all over the source code.