Floppy Drive Pan WebCam

Making an web-controlled webcam panning unit out of an old 3,5" floppy drive, old CD-box, a paperclip, two nails, a rubber band and about 2 Euro worth of electrical components

Milan Gajic has made a cool Web controlled floppy drive powered pan cam. Some simple right and left commands on this page allow anyone on the net to have the floppy drive move the camera around to get look out of Milan’s window.

See also...

• How Floppy Disk Drives Work by Gary Brown From HowStuffwork *****
• Anatomy of a Floppy Disk Drive From From hardwaresecrets.com *****
• Floppy drive stepper motor by ashishrd
• Controlling Floppy Drive Stepper Motor via Parallel Port By Ashish Derhgawen. From CodeProject
• "Floppy" the Robot by E. Teevan and J. Herbert
• Floppy drive RC car - by Eliot Phillips
• Converting a Floppy Disk Drive into a Simple Robot II and I by Chris Barron
• How to use disk drive stepper-motors by Tomi Engdahl
• Electricity with Stepper Motors From reuk.co.uk
• SunFlopper , The dirt-cheap floppy-drive active solar tracking unit by Brian S. Julin