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For your idea, you could do what a lot of kids toys do, where they have a "cartridge" (puzzle piece, alphabet letter, whatever) which has some notches, so it pu

For your idea, you could do what a lot of kids toys do, where they have a "cartridge" (puzzle piece, alphabet letter, whatever) which has some notches, so it pushes a combo of switches to select what sound to play Could also do it with barcodes i did this with toggle switches in my car, and they're binary, so the 4 gave me 16 options... per mode, i had a mode button too, in radio mode it was either podcasts, a few SDR options, and a few mp3 music genres then i decided the toggle switches were gonna get embedded in my face if i got in a wreck so i took them out ... there's a reason all the buttons in cars are round and plastic, I guess.

ficklepickle 6y ago
We would be friends. Any pics?
bellyfullofbac 6y ago
Now I want to build a floppy drive into my car, and each 3.5" disk would be an "album" - of course it would just be a cartridge that the system would recognize to play a particular set of files which are stored internally. It would amuse my friends on car trips, not that I have any of those...
- dbrgn 6y ago
  I planned to do that with old 64 MiB or 128 MiB SD cards and a car radio with SD support: One SD card = one album. However, nobody still makes SD cards this small, and using a 16 GiB card for 1 album seems wasteful :) But floppy disks would be much nicer.
  - herbst 6y ago
    Try aliexpress you can bulk buy 4gb ones for about a dollar each.
- hexmiles 6y ago
  I see a problem tho, the floppy don't go nicely with the car enviroment and they will probably become unreadable pretty fast. I had a similar idea but i wanted to embed small nfc tag into some floppy disk and use a broken floppy reader that i own with a tag reader inside the gut of the reader reusing only the eject mechanism and the led, (i will be missing the nice motor noise tough...). I'm also experimenting with other cartridge-style meccanism
- nereye 6y ago
  Echoes of FlashPath (have one somewhere): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath It is an adapter that takes flash cards (e.g. SmartMedia) and can be used in 3.5" drives.

ficklepickle 6y ago

We would be friends. Any pics?

bellyfullofbac 6y ago

Now I want to build a floppy drive into my car, and each 3.5" disk would be an "album" - of course it would just be a cartridge that the system would recognize to play a particular set of files which are stored internally. It would amuse my friends on car trips, not that I have any of those...

dbrgn 6y ago
I planned to do that with old 64 MiB or 128 MiB SD cards and a car radio with SD support: One SD card = one album. However, nobody still makes SD cards this small, and using a 16 GiB card for 1 album seems wasteful :) But floppy disks would be much nicer.
- herbst 6y ago
  Try aliexpress you can bulk buy 4gb ones for about a dollar each.
hexmiles 6y ago
I see a problem tho, the floppy don't go nicely with the car enviroment and they will probably become unreadable pretty fast. I had a similar idea but i wanted to embed small nfc tag into some floppy disk and use a broken floppy reader that i own with a tag reader inside the gut of the reader reusing only the eject mechanism and the led, (i will be missing the nice motor noise tough...). I'm also experimenting with other cartridge-style meccanism
nereye 6y ago
Echoes of FlashPath (have one somewhere): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath It is an adapter that takes flash cards (e.g. SmartMedia) and can be used in 3.5" drives.