Reasons I am not an engineer: One, I have a limited supply of patience. Two, a limited supply of resources, and three, a limited amount of brain power. YouTuber polymatt, however, appears to have no such issues, as they've built a 3½-inch floppy disk from scratch using nothing but consumer-available materials, some creative thinking, and a whole lot of tenacity.

And when I say from scratch, I really mean it. I initially assumed that polymatt would merely be creating the diskette frame itself, but nope, they've gone ahead and fabricated the internal magnet-coated disk as well (via Hackaday ). The project began as all good endeavours do, with the idea of solving a very complicated problem step by step and seeing what can be learned along the way.

Apparently, it's how to make an exact worki

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