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MAKE In This Issue... Video Profile of Automata Artist Dug North MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup How-To: Archive Five Thousand Floppies More Recent Articles Video Profile of Automata Artist Dug North Here’s a brief article and profile video about MAKE friend and contributor Dug North. He talks about his artwork, building wooden automata, shows us some primne examples, and offers a peek at his workshop. Oh my god, his workshop! Invention of Dreams • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw… [Untitled] from bert_m_b. [Untitled] from mauxfaux. homemade car from nicknormal. trumpet hero rev2 from evilsigntist. Rotofence Oldschool from mauxfaux. Laptop, etch thyself from hudson. Pedal Powered Generator from zeni666. • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • How-To: Archive Five Thousand Floppies With about 5,000 3.5″ Amiga floppy disks stored in six wooden crates, Dwellers wanted to free up that physical space, but didn’t want to lose his archive of data. The process of archiving so many disks would be incredibly time consuming and monotonous, so he built the Floppy Autoader. The machine to automatically inserts a disk, saves the data from each disk onto a hard drive and takes a picture of the disk’s label. All Dwellers has to do is load up the hopper with a stack of disks and the machine takes care of the rest. He originally attempted to make the machine with a Lego Mindstorms kit, but ran into problems and decided to hack apart a floppy disk duplicator he found on eBay. The process of copying each disk takes about three or four minutes and the machine has already copied about 300 disks, so there’s quite a way to go. In the mean time, Dwellers is writing software to browse and this trove of data. [via Hack a Day] • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles Wood Pallet Bike Rack Upgrade Your Office With An RFID Reading Door What My Friends Think I Do vs. What I Really Do How-To: Make Your Own Sriracha How Toys Can Save Lives on CNN's The Next List This Sunday (April 1)

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