Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Using retro tech is popular in escape rooms, and I needed some 3.5" floppy disks for a 1990s-themed escape room puzzle which players could insert into a computer and read and write files onto.
But, rather than rely on the original magnetic media, I decided to modify the disks and replace the magnetic platter with an RFID chip which could be easily read from an Arduino and a cheap MFRC522 RFID module embedded in the drive instead. This video shows how I did it.
Using retro tech is popular in escape rooms, and I needed some 3.5" floppy disks for a 1990s-themed escape room puzzle which players could insert into a computer and read and write files onto.
But, rather than rely on the original magnetic media, I decided to modify the disks and replace the magnetic platter with an RFID chip which could be easily read from an Arduino and a cheap MFRC522 RFID module embedded in the drive instead. This video shows how I did it.
