A Ukrainian electronics engineer and software developer just installed a 3.5-inch floppy drive in their Tesla, and they were even able to play a single MP3 file off the ancient storage medium. Oleg Kutkov posted a video on X (expand the tweet below) showing the old drive plugged into the USB port in the glove compartment of the electric vehicle via a USB to FDD converter. They then played Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up, which was stored on the 1.44 MB diskette. It took some time for the song to load, and you can hear the drive moving around the magnetic head to read the contents, but it works.
I connected a 3.5'' floppy drive to my @Tesla, and it works.It's nice that the Linux kernel still supports this subsystem. The system script mounts any detected disk drive (with some exceptions) as external storage for Sentry/Dashcam/media source.It's even possible to play a… pic.twitter.com/lHndt6moAXApril 8, 2026
