{"id":20163,"date":"2020-05-14T08:34:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T07:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20163"},"modified":"2020-05-14T08:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T07:36:17","slug":"entirely-useless-keyboard-made-by-inserting-floppies-uses-a-raspberry-pi-and-a-teensy-lc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20163","title":{"rendered":"Entirely useless keyboard made by inserting floppies uses a Raspberry Pi and a Teensy LC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foone_keyboard.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20164\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foone_keyboard.jpg?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foone_keyboard.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foone_keyboard.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foone_keyboard.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foone_keyboard.jpg?resize=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foone_keyboard.jpg?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foone_keyboard.jpg?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/floppy.foone.org\/w\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foone Turing<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Foone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow him on Twitter here<\/a>) has done some <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/02\/21\/death-generator-makes-game-over-more-personal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crazy builds in the past<\/a> but this time he&#8217;s gone for&#8230; entirely useless!<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s hooked up an old floppy drive to a Raspberry Pi which reads the disk insertion events and then looks to see what the volume label is: the volume labels are letters or special keys like SHIFT. These are then sent to a Teensy LC which converts the signals into proper keystrokes which it then sends to a host PC. It&#8217;s completely batty, but I love it! Talk about whimsical \ud83d\ude42 You can see it in action below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The FlopKey terrible keyboard\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rb42ud2SY00?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/05\/13\/floppy-drive-keyboard-is-inefficient-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thanks to Hackaday for spotting this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foone Turing (follow him on Twitter here) has done some crazy builds in the past but this time he&#8217;s gone for&#8230; entirely useless! 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