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Building a Reader for the Smallest Hard Drive

Building a Reader for the Smallest Hard Drive

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Comments (26)

  • mkirsten
    Still a great story, great page and impressive reverse engineering. Isn't OpenClaw vs. he did it "himself" a bit analogue to the critique "oh, he wrote the firmware in C++ and let the compiler figure out the assembly code".Maybe you wanted to see the assembly code, and that's fine. But he took a potentially difficult problem, found tools to solve it and documented (to some degree) the process?
  • alias_neo
    I remember my Nokia N91 which had a 4GB version of one of these tiny HDDs, blew my mind at the time.Man do I miss the N-series, I had so many good phones in that era.
  • tda
    Is there a video somewhere of the one inch microdrive with acrylic display shown in the article?
  • thehamkercat
    "Coded by OpenClaw" written on PCBwas this necessary? could've said "Code written by LLM" or something
  • wartywhoa23
    Lost me at the first OpenClaw mention.
  • Tempest1981
    Cool!I found the old drive that worked with my Canon camera. It's a Hitachi 2GB Microdrive from 2003. It says CF+ Type-II. So larger, with a CompactFlash interface, boring in comparison.More history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicrodriveI'm trying to remember the camera... Canon Powershot S1 IS maybe? It used a lot more battery running the microdrive.