Adafruit has designed a floppy drive PCB that uses an RP2040 with the ability to emulate a real floppy drive. This isn't the first time Adafruit has used a Raspberry Pi to dabble in the world of floppy disk support. Just over a year ago, the team programmed a Raspberry Pi Pico to read floppy disks. Now, they've taken the notion a step further and designed a Raspberry Pi RP2040 floppy drive PCB that allows users to archive, write, and emulate a real floppy drive.
It's also worth mentioning that Adafruit isn't alone in this endeavor. The "go-to" name in floppy emulation for many retro enthusiasts is Gotek, with a drive which can emulate a plethora of floppy disk formats. Over the years, we've covered a few other Raspberry Pi floppy projects, including this floppy disk adapter and another project that adds floppy drive support to your Pi. Over at X (formerly Twitter), Adafruit delved into what this new PCB offers. It has 16M onboard flash memory, but there's also room to add a microSD card. It even has a 1.3-inch color TFT display module to help keep track of task progress in real time.
