Comments on: Backup DVD burning robot

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:28:58 +0000

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.

By: George

George — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:48:38 +0000

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!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:35:51 +0000

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.

By: andre

andre — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:21:52 +0000

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 :)

By: Yoshi

Yoshi — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:16:00 +0000

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.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:01:44 +0000

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

By: Phace

Phace — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:31:29 +0000

These have been invented already.

http://www.Rimage.com

But nice though!
Cheers!

By: nnaarrnn

nnaarrnn — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:30:07 +0000

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

By: fartface

fartface — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:00:04 +0000

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.

By: copec

copec — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:33:30 +0000

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.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:13:22 +0000

Ooooo, that’s my next Lego MindStorm project.

Hhhhmmmmm.

By: Coderer

Coderer — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:52:30 +0000

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

Neat hack, though.