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DIY Optical Disc Duplicator

sentex.net — The design is pretty simple and uses gravity for downward movement, so you don ’t have to worry about a motor slamming the head into the desk.

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  • nowdigg, on 10/12/2007, -60/+10BloodJunkie posts 100th story in 24 hour period
    • BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -15/+26Hmmm...I wish there was a way to report comments as inaccurate.
    • abbtech, on 10/12/2007, -54/+8And even if he did what is the problem with that? Is there an issue with being into tech?

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    • Munja, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41Is there a way to report comments as including an annoying spam link to there website that no one is going to click on
    • dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The little block button next to the name and "xx minutes ago"?
      Digg needs a signature in the profile, that you can globally hide (via an preference setting)..
      - Ben
    • robohoe, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3You don't have to click it you know? It's just there, but you don't have to click it -.-
    • sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Munja, if no one clicks it, why worry?
  • mmm_linux, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11yay lets copy hackaday!
    • adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You know I don't mind when a story gets copied from another site, because unlike 50% of the other diggers I don't try to seem all cool and ***** by letting everyone know that I saw this a few hours or more ago. But at least try to change the description a little and not just cut and paste it.
    • asteroth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Article's from 2002 - RTFA. it was posted on slashdot and hackaday after this guy put it up.
  • newanalog, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20The title is misleading. It should say, "DIY Optical Disc Changer" or something similar.
    • rkuchiki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Exactly, I was just expecting a normal tower with 3-4 cd burners in it, and a suggested price list.

      Misleading title, but cool article none-the-less.
  • anvilon, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Wow, ancient history. I saw this 2-3 years ago.
    • halavais, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12I didn't, and it's the coolest thing I've seen today...
  • NinjAlt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12The title should say "Stuff I stole from Hackaday without giving credit"
  • daza, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5From the article: "With the price of DVD drives and blank media, CDs are still cheaper per megabyte than DVDs."

    Woah. I don't know where they live, but when you can pick up DVDs easily for $AUD0.35 a piece, DVDs per MB are far cheaper than CDs. CDs are about $AUD0.29 each, and only hold 700mb (plus are far slower to write to). Strange :/
    • sparkrainfir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6like someone said, this "story" is about 3 years old, look at the cd burner he is using! 3 years ago DVD's weren't cheap.
  • AstroZombie138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The DVD/CD cost comparison is off because the article is several years old.
  • OmegaNine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I would just love to see some DYI thing like this being dragged out of a piracy bust.
  • jerbaker, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0The article's last sentence claims that CD media is cheaper per megabyte than DVD. I think this guy is seriously bad at math. In order for them to be of equal cost, a DVD-R would have to cost 6.4 times more than a CD-R. If he is using CD-Rs and DVD-Rs that are of at least good quality, the DVD-R will run about $0.32 each while the CD-R will run about $0.24. That's $0.0000713 per megabyte on a DVD-R and $0.000343 per megabyte on the CD-R. To make numbers easier to see, per gigabyte it's $0.073 per GB with DVD-R and $0.351 per GB with CD-R. That's five times the cost to use CD-R.
    • titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2uhh is 4 years ago, I Super Drive beck then was like Blu-Ray now.
    • daven1986, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4did you not read the above post by sparkrainfir? what a waste of your calculators battery!
  • colinrgodsey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3this makes me want to do bad things. (looks around for old parallel cable, relay board, and wood...)
  • EarthBoundX5, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3you ***** idiots, its not stolen from hack-a-day. If you jack-asses would take the time to read an article instead of looking at the pretty pictures, you'd see that hack-a-day links to this article, if anything hack-a-day copied this, but gave credit.
  • JackSpratts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1since this was written ages ago, and he said at the time he'd dismantle it to reuse the parts i'm guessing the device no longer exists. it's interesting tho because at the time people were actually hiring rippers to transfer their cds to their mp3 players. imagine if you hired out your ripping expertise but had to hand-load someone's 300 cd collection, then do it all over again for somebody else etc, etc? since the price charged was usually 1 dollar per ripped cd, with a box like his he could've made out pretty well. in more ways than one.

    - js.

  • coffeegeek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1If no one clicks it....Does it still make a sound?
  • rjnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I love the thing. Fixed automation is always interesting, especially with scrounged materials. My only concern is that he made it out of wood. Wood tracks humidity far too well, and you wind up with a choice between too loose, and stuck. It would drive you nuts if you were really trying to use it in production. But given the other comments - (going to disassemble it, don't run off stacks of disks anyway) its a fine choice for a design exercise. Kudo's to the builder, and I wonder what the bits turned into.
  • diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i remember a year or so ago i was wanting to build something for duplication remotely. basically ssh into my linux machine and run something like the project linked above. i ran across three different articles but none of them were really worth the time and effort to come out wiht something practical. still would be interested in something that was more compact and accurate, aside from forking out a few thousand for a professional device.
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