Not that the need to connect an antique floppy drive to you computer happens everyday but if it does, this is just the device you will be needing.
The xu1541 is the modern way to connect cbm iec bus devices to todays USB equipped PCs and it is meant to replace the printer port solutions based on the so-called original x1541 cable. The xu1541 interface allows you e.g. to attach a VC1541 disk drive to your desktop PC as depicted below. This allows for easy transfer of disk images from and to the old units and helps you preserve your ancient data.
If your looking for a nice Commodore 64 emulator I’d recommend CCS64. I’ve had good results with that myself.
MAKE: Blog: Use a Commodore disk drive on a PC
Wow, these kits bring back some good memories. When I was a kid my dad used to buy these all the time. I was too young to solder but I could plug stuff in the box. I’m not sure if he built all the kits that he bought, I remember him saying they were a good source of parts. At least I know where I got that trait from. 🙂
This is good look at a future that might have been.
You know, nothing says ‘Fourth of July’ like rockets shooting out of the pool!
Now here is something you don’t see every day, a camera made out of a flatbed scanner. Even more cool than that is that it takes a 360 degree panoramic scan. This project write up had loads of photos and is sure to inspire more people to make cameras such as this.
Oh cool, a fractal flame editor for Windows. What’s a fractal flame? Well it’s like a regular fractal except that it the colors can be moderated by the structure and not the density and a few other things that frankly I just don’t have the maths to explain. More info can be had