{"id":2586,"date":"2026-09-28T14:42:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:48:28","slug":"return-of-the-floppy-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/return-of-the-floppy-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Floppy Drive!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Retro Raspberry Pi Floppy Drive\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kye0IY6sFe8?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my many projects is a Sun Microsystems inspired Raspberry Pi 5 workstation, with an external USB floppy drive, fo use with emulators, or just for fun. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you can see, I&#8217;ve made everything Sun Microsystems inspired.  The floppy drive and VGA monitor both use a retro beige finish.  The Dial is for volume control of external speakers.  Making the monitor tilt realistically was pretty fun.  The dial&#8217;s potentiometer does require some resoldering, because I kinda forgot about the ground wire.  Oops!  \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my many projects is a Sun Microsystems inspired Raspberry Pi 5 workstation, with an external USB floppy drive, fo use with emulators, or just for fun. \ud83d\ude06 As&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,52,4],"tags":[7,10,8,6],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbies","category-retro","category-tech","tag-hobbies","tag-retro","tag-sbc","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyironworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}