This Engineer Got a Tesla To Play Rick Astley From a Retro Floppy Disk
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Published on April 21, 2026.
Ukrainian electronics engineer Oleg Kutkov successfully connected a 45-year-old 3.5-inch floppy disk drive to a modern Tesla via its glovebox USB port. The vehicle's underlying Linux kernel recognized the vintage hardware and automatically mounting the drive for media playback. Despite the successful integration, the 1.44 MB capacity of a standard floppy disk remains a significant barrier for modern use cases like high-definition dashcam recording. This experiment demonstrates the resilience of the Linux-based infotainment system, which is pre-equipped to handle a wide range of peripheral devices without requiring significant software modifications.
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