Roland S-10 GoTek/FlashFloppy Adapter

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Looking to pimp out your Roland S-10 to the nth degree? ...or you just have a slowly-but-surely failing Mitsumi QuickDisk drive. I'm sure by now you've come across the GoTek and heard about FlashFloppy's support for Roland QuickDisk emulation. Unfortunately, the original GoTek case isn't a great fit for the S-10 or most QuickDisk capable devices. I've designed this fancy drive sled and riser to get your S-10 running like a beast! ### Printing I used fairly standard settings to print these out and even resorted to the "Fast" preset to do the riser since I wasn't worried about quality. You will need supports for the riser (tree-like is my preference), but I'd print the adapter without supports. A high infill isn't too necessary since the walls should take care of most of the work. I used a hexagon pattern on both the adapter and riser to use less material. I think it looks cool, but it could be removed if you'd prefer something more simple (not that it'd be visible anyway). The FreeCAD design files are provided along with the STL files. ### Installation This adapter is designed for a 0.96" 128x64 OLED display module and rotary encoder module. The OLED is a tight fit within the enclosure, so you might have to ease it in when putting the drive cover back on. I highly recommend finding little screws to screw it in place. The rotary encoder slides in pretty tight as well, so you have to angle it in when inserting it. Once it's in and you have the shaft screwed into place, it should be very stable. The GoTek/OpenFlops PCB is also a pretty exact fit. You may need to jimmy the USB around to get it fully inserted into the front panel. I added a spot for the power led to be added on (it's L3 on the GoTek). This is a pretty easy thing to solder up, but if you'd prefer not to have it, you can either just leave it unpopulated or alter the STL/FCStd to cover up that spot. The riser is designed to fit with the S-10 drive mounting specifications. If you only need the adapter for a drive sled, then you can skip printing this model. The original S-10 drive screws won't work with the riser. You'll have to find some decent fitting self-tapping screws instead (not machine screws). I was just able to find a few in the discard pile, so I'm not sure of the actual specs. ### Compatibility The adapter is actually designed to be compatible with the Roland MT-100 QD drive sled. With this in mind, it should work with many if not most of the Mitsumi QuickDisk drives in Roland products (possibly other manufacturers?). I have only tested this design with the Roland S-10 with use of the provided riser. ### Links #### Product Links GoTek: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088ZT7J7G/ (you can probably find it cheaper than this elsewhere) OpenFlops: https://www.simulant.uk/shop/Floppy-Disk-Drive-USB-Emulator-OpenFlops-FlashFloppy-%20Gotek-upgrade (Gotek open-source alternative) OLED: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0833PF7ML Rotary: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T3672VK #### Other Links GoTek: http://www.gotekemulator.com/ OpenFlops: https://github.com/SukkoPera/OpenFlops FlashFloppy QD Firmware: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki/Quick-Disk (you'll need a USB2TTL converter to flash the SMT32; I was able to use an old Arduino for the job) Installation Video (Espen Kraft): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5ZHwBb1B8 (this is to help demonstrate how to open up the keyboard; the drive is pre-flashed and modified in this, and no adapter is used)