I started this project while reading a series of articles in Amiga Addict, written by Rob Smith the original creator, and came to the conclusion that maybe it was time to start looking into backing up my old Commodore Amiga floppy disks. He also describes several ways of building an Amiga DrawBridge from scratch without a PCB, but I wanted to design something around it and went with the Pro Mini-variant as I found that to be the easiest to assemble (no fine soldering required). With all of those resources at our fingertips, there's really now excuse for not getting started on backing up all of those aging floppy disks today! Alternatively, you could get this PCB and build it tomorrow instead! Any later and all of those treasured memories, at least those stored on floppy disks, will already have started to rot away!Given that I've also built and shared a Greaseweazle, it's probably a good idea to include a short blurbs about the differences between them. The Greaseweazle aims to work at the raw magnetic flux layer of the physical disks and then interpreting that into various disk formats or simply dumping the raw data to a file, the Amiga DrawBridge instead acts more like it is a Commodore Amiga and works within this specific format though later versions also support raw data dumps as well. The DrawBridge is a bit easier to get started with and obtain suitable parts for, but given a passing interest in archiving your disks and the cost of the components themselves. I'd consider both of them excellent options for getting started on archiving your disks, because we all know that actually getting is the hardest step - and today it couldn't be easier.As shown in some of the images, I like to design various faceplates that goes on my designs in order to keep them from looking like bare PCBs. Most of these faceplates will also be available as shared projects, this specific project is for the main PCB that holds all of the active components. For parts list, assembly instructions as well as any other information that you'd need, check out the corresponding github-repository.
