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Replacing Goteks and Floppy Drives for OpenFlops

by bassybeats | Oct 26, 2025 | Computing

So I finally got sick of 3.5″ Floppy drives and modifying the aliexpress gotek clones so i built some of OpenFlops clones that have the OLED screen and rotary encoder in the them and swapped all my machines over.

Putting them together

The project is located here on GitHub: https://github.com/SukkoPera/OpenFlops. The soldering was pretty straight forward, I think the only issue I had was finding parts and finding the STL for them. I ended up using these prints on thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4760666

Programming

Getting them programmed was also pretty straight forward. I jus followed the guide here https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki/Firmware-Programming#stm32-microcontrollers

Putting LineageOS on a Galaxy Tab 2

by bassybeats | Oct 26, 2025 | Computing

A while back I was given an old Android tablet, a Sasmsung Tab 2 10.1 specifically and I had no use for it as the OS was far too old. That was until I had to get a PCIe Diagnostics Card working with an android device and didn’t want to buy one. So in comes custom android.

Installing a custom Rom on the Tab 2

I gave a few options like ExpressoWifi3G and Odin3 working but it never worked, I really wanted Android 8 as people got it working but I had to settle for LineageOS 13 / Android 6. It seemed pretty straight forward once I found the right package. I mostly followed this guide: https://xdaforums.com/t/complete-guide-to-root-and-update-samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-gt-p5110.4229479/

I think I had to install GApps to get the playstore working on it, to then get the PCIe post card software working. The worst part was the Samsung tablet using a proprietary power cable which took a while to find on AliExpress.