DIY Series: Repurposing a CD Drive скачать в хорошем качестве

DIY Series: Repurposing a CD Drive

DIY Series: Repurposing a CD Drive Continuous innovation and progressive improvements in consumer electronics generate a steady consumer demand for latest household appliances based on innovative technologies that change each year. Offered a wide variety of new, cutting-edge products with advanced features and appealing design, consumers do not hesitate to replace outdated appliances they use in their homes. This has created an absolutely new market with stable prices. The pricey yet antiquated belongings acquired throughout the years still have to be discarded, which is often not an easy thing to do. Those who are fond of antiquities come up with their own, very different ways to repurpose such "household waste" that is well past its heyday. One of such examples is a CD player with a very primitive design that will probably be a good fit for a country house and is extremely easy to build. The desktop computer has moved past many milestones in its evolution towards perfection, upgrading from one version to another and based on increasingly sophisticated components. An old computer is usually sold part by part and replaced by a new one. It turns out that a part that is almost always left behind is a CD drive, which will provide the basis for our device. To operate, the drive will need a power supply. Well, we could use the original one used in the computer. However, old computer power supplies are notoriously unreliable in the long run, which is known to have caused many motherboards to inflame. In this case I used a power supply from an old DVD player that somehow managed to escape the dump. Power supplies in such devices are often preserved fully intact. Its design allows connecting the computer drive with a standard adapter cable that doesn't need to be adjusted or reworked in any way. Also, the supply is included in the player as a separate unit with its own connectors. The only thing needed is a casing for the power supply. Here you are free to use your creativity. You can use a ready made one that has a suitable size or you can make one yourself using the any suitable materials at hand, such as foil-plated hardened paper. First, measure the power supply. Then, using an ordinary knife and a ruler, cut out parts of based on the desired dimensions (width, length, height, etc.). In this case the width and length of the casing match those of the CD drive. The motherboard is ...