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Odd indeed. As far as I know the Gotek was invented exactly for use by embroidery machines, and the ads are everywhere. I tried entering "embroidery floppy emu
by Tor3 4y ago
Odd indeed. As far as I know the Gotek was invented exactly for use by embroidery machines, and the ads are everywhere. I tried entering "embroidery floppy emulator" into Google and an Amazon link for a $38 Gotek came up first (and, as we know, we can get it cheaper than that).
But of course a few lines below there's a "floppyusbemulator.com" page with a $250 "Nalbantov" drive (which are sold for $175 elsewhere, and there are probably other variantes).
- jaclaz 4y agoI can confirm, the first time I saw one of them (many years ago, I believe probably 15 years ago, maybe more) it was in the workshop of someone who provided assistance/repair to sewing machines (and embroidery machines), from what I can remember at the time floppies and floppy drives were still in use and it was intended as an upgrade as it had less issues with dust and was more convenient to have many (up to 100) "floppy" images available. Besides the (now common) Gotek, there are every kind of emulators/replacements for industrial machines, like, besides embroidery, CNC's, some early robots, etc., here is a site dedicated to them: https://embeddedsw.net/EMUFDD_Floppy_Hardware_Emulator_Home.html https://embeddedsw.net/EMUFDD_Floppy_Hardware_Emulator_Home....