How to Turn a Floppy Disk Drive into a USB Hub

Posted on January 26th, 2010. Written by Rico.

Hooray for Filipino creativity! According to a certain “Tala Wong”, a Filipino has experimented with an old 3.5″ floppy disk drive, turning an obsolete piece of technology into a USB hub.

The walkthrough is quite lengthy, and actually reveals the absent-mindedness of the supposedly Filipino techie dude (I only have the word of Tala as basis for the mystery experimenter’s nationality). So I’ll let his words do the talking, located right here.

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http://junk-heap.blogspot.com JP Esteban

Why is Tala Wong in quotation marks, and how do I come off as absent-minded?
http://technogra.ph Rico

Got an email from a “Tala Wong”, and I had no idea if that was her real name, thus the quotes. She/he (again, I have no idea) also didn’t reply to my email asking who did the DIY project. Checked your site and I couldn’t find a name.

And you came off as absent-minded (at least to me) because you forgot about putting USB components before starting the project for real. Remember?
http://junk-heap.blogspot.com JP Esteban

That does ring a bell, now that you point it out. After seeing your own perspective of the article, I guess either these kinds of jokes don’t translate well textually, or I’m really just not that funny!

This should clear up some of the uncertainties. Yes, Tala Wong is her real name, she sent you guys the tip behind my back which is why I didn’t get to comment right away. I am Filipino, although I’m not sure how I can prove that over the Internet except by professing my love for kare-kare, adobo, kaldereta, and most importantly, balut, among other foods. You can probably verify it with Ms. Edjie Gosiengfiao, too, but I doubt she remembers me.

Thank you for the small feature, this was quite unexpected. Even if you were tipped, it’s still your choice to publish the story or not. There’s still a lot of junk lying around my house, so if you’re still interested in more Filipino creativity, a DIY tutorial on homemade geeky picture frames is likely to come up in a couple days.

On a completely unrelated note, I planned on sending this at 8:08 PM just to keep up the timestamp pattern we had going on, unfortunately things got in the way.