Comments on: DIY optical disc duplicator

By: echodelta

echodelta — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:16:19 +0000

My 400 disc CD has a carousel slotted holder and uses gravity to roll out one disc thru the one little slot in the rim. An arm pushes it back up in when done. I don’t have near that many CD’s so I don’t use it. The space-saving keyboard (for titling display) that came with it I am typing on. I should give it to the pirate radio in town (play list stinks) that’s about 2 weeks worth of play. My single CD drawer crapped out so how I fixed it will be my first hack to put here!

Which is worse, ripping off labels (artists are ripped off mostly) or ripping of clean audio into audio pee for (accordion box)?

@ craig Save your white goods (apple) have it done pro, or buy a auto duplicator.

By: insomniac

insomniac — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:03:56 +0000

it says they received the Lego Mindstorms as a wedding gift – please read everything carefully – here’s the text:

“decided to build a robot out of the Lego

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:44:44 +0000

This is similar to what my dad builds for his work. they use robotic arms and the use little suction cups to pick up the cds.

By: acevonwildfire

acevonwildfire — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:46:56 +0000

Mad_Matt… you could use a bunch of plastic trays for for the CDs… that’s a common choice for CD changers. The servo could be made to run up and down a tower to select individual tray.
Ace Von Wildfire

By: craig

craig — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:59:46 +0000

Lol this is perfect for what we need at skl. We are planning on making a prospectus DVD, so need to copy one disc and make about 5000 copies. Unfort all we have are two Intel iMacs with slot loading drives, so it’s either stay behind every night for a month buring or building one these. Hmmmm….

By: rafael vuijk

rafael vuijk — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:26:51 +0000

tooth: Direct I/O costs money!
I use http://www.logix4u.net/inpout32.htm
Great idea. Now just add a dust blower and a static electricity field neutralizer and it’s complete ;P

By: bEN JACKSON

bEN JACKSON — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:58:47 +0000

The problem with using the parallel port for stuff like this under windows is that driving stepper motors at a resonable speed has realtime requirements that are hard to meet when you’re far from the hardware. Look at EMC (a CNC program for Linux), for example. It requires RT Linux extensions.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:33:35 +0000

hang on.. that lego dude received lego minstorms for their wedding present.. bit worrying!? bet his wife was ovr the moon! :p

By: theblunderbuss

theblunderbuss — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:26:17 +0000

MaddMatt, the first thing that comes to mind is a vacuum.
Pros: Gentle, it would work ideally
Cons: It would only grab the top CD in a stack (is that what you wanted?), the vacuum hole would have to be offset so it doesn’t overlap the hole, and special fabrication for the air system could overcomplicate it to failure.

The packing industry has used vaccum lifting for years now, proving its practicality

By: pretorious

pretorious — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:11:35 +0000

I was actually searching up and down for that link about a week ago! Ah, sweet success.

By: madd_matt

madd_matt — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:11:08 +0000

I’m considering taking a design for something like this and making a multi-CD changer, on the order of several hundred DVDs. I haven’t started work on it, but I’m not quite sure how i’d select an individual disk. Anybody got ideas? I’ve thought about putting spacers between them, that would be easier for a machine to grab, but that would involve as many spacers as you have disks. (And I want the design to scale up past 1000 easily)

By: TheBlunderbuss

TheBlunderbuss — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:31:51 +0000

Not a recent hack and one I’ve known a while, but it’s one I’ve always admired.

By: Computer_kid

Computer_kid — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:04:39 +0000

This is perfect for piracy, I mean making duplications of materials that you own the rights to. :-)

By: tooth

tooth — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 03:25:25 +0000

looks good.. one thing– he says that accessing the parallel port is difficult under windows and thus it’s not possible to use windows to control this thing.. you can actually access the parallel port exactly the same under windows or linux except that under windows you need to install a driver such as this http://www.direct-io.com .. there’s nothing really tricky about it