…or you could just, you know, get an external hard drive with the capacity of like 200 DVDs for less money.

Neat hack, though.

Posted at 8:52 am on Sep 18th, 2008 by Coderer

Ooooo, that’s my next Lego MindStorm project.

Hhhhmmmmm.

Posted at 9:13 am on Sep 18th, 2008 by bob

I would like something like this with Gold DVD’s so that i can have a backup that I could ‘trust’ past my lifetime. Your know, if I could still read it 50 years from now.

Posted at 9:33 am on Sep 18th, 2008 by copec

Back them up…. why?

rip them to mpeg4, oh wait, an epia board. not enough horsepower to even play a standard DVD let alone a mpeg4 decently. a rip would take a week on that computer.

anyhoo. why stay with old tech, rip for meda center goodness…. handbrake cli is your friend.

Posted at 10:00 am on Sep 18th, 2008 by fartface

I think this is to make backups to dvd,not backup dvds.

Posted at 10:30 am on Sep 18th, 2008 by nnaarrnn

These have been invented already.

http://www.Rimage.com

But nice though!
Cheers!

Posted at 10:31 am on Sep 18th, 2008 by Phace

bonus points if you add a printer like those rimage machines. Even better, scavenge a plotter!

Posted at 11:01 am on Sep 18th, 2008 by Derek

Granted, this isn’t exactly a brilliant new idea, but I like it. I mean, if nothing else, it’s a new way to do a project. If you, for whatever reason, can’t do any of the previous versions, maybe you can do this one, or find some way of improving it to make it more efficient.

Posted at 11:16 am on Sep 18th, 2008 by Yoshi

Pretty clever. One way to reduce the expense might be to use a dead laptop- I have four here of which the fastest is a 1.6GHz sony Vaio with bad gfx controller but otherwise works.

Control over LAN or Wifi, and you are all set. BTW one idea I’m looking into is controlling robots etc over Bluetooth headset using sound, with a micro to decode control tones into commands.

Feedback is done the same way, feeding signals into the MIC input up to about 4 kHz.

Bonus if anyone can transmit frames of monochrome video from a model helicopter as audio :)

Posted at 11:21 am on Sep 18th, 2008 by andre

All this thing needs is some form of archive indexing. Write a driver for network storage and watch the machine grab your data. It would have the same feel as the old 45 juke boxes.

Nice work.

Posted at 11:35 am on Sep 18th, 2008 by Steve

Nice! Turn it around and have it auto rip encode your dvd collection. ;) Or have it feed hard drives instead of DVDs.

Computer + Robot = Fun project!

Posted at 12:48 pm on Sep 18th, 2008 by George

This is incredibly useful for independent musicians or filmmakers to make several copies of their latest project without manually burning them.

You can buy the machine, of course, but they’re expensive… though I’m sure most musicians (myself included) couldn’t build this.

Posted at 2:28 pm on Sep 18th, 2008 by Eric