Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Home built CD changer contraption
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| The software for this gadget is relatively simple. I wrote a simple
| command line driven program that sequences the machine through picking a
| CD from the tray and dropping it in the middle, and piking up a CD from
| the stack on the left, and dropping it in the tray. The software also
| has some manual controls, which I use for debugging and aligning the
| machine. It does do direct I/O to the printer port. under Linux, this
| is easy to do if the program runs as root. Under Windows NT/2000/XP,
| this is much more difficult. But the machine that this is hooked up
| to runs Linux anyway, so no issue there. Source code: changer.c
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| The rest is done by cdrecord. cdrecord is a suite of command line
| driven CD authoring programs. Obviously, the cd recording has to be
| done from command line, so that it is possible to run it in batch mode
| from shell scripts. Comes standard with Linux distributions. To my
| surprise, I found it also runs under Windows, provided that you have an
| ASPI driver. It even worked with my HP 8200 USB cd burner! So the
| whole setup could be run under Windows as well, although getting at
| the printer port is much harder.
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http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/changer.html
funky little gadget - as the guy says in the article tho, you're
probably better off to install two or three burners in your tower and
change the discs manually, as it takes a while to get the kinks out. Or
do what I did and invest in a 1:7 duplicator.
On that same note, there are available, CD stack burners which use a
single drive which feeds off a stack of blanks via a robot arm. Said arm
uses sensors to position each disc, which upon completion are dumped on
a second spindle for packaging. Expensive but worth it if you're
producing discs by the thousands. Some models hold two or three thousand
discs.
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Use a hammer.
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