DIY DVD Backup Robot

@ 2008/09/18
Aaron Shephards built himself a DVD burning robot to automate his backups. "Florian" picks up a DVD from a stack and places them in the DVD burner to be written. It then flips them over to be labelled, and even discards any bad disks into a naughty pile. All using self-built circuit boards, a few servos and servo controllers, plenty of LEDs, his own software written in Perl and components from local surplus shops. There's an EPIA M10000 motherboard in there too. Somewhere.


The unit is much larger than I had anticipated and does not utilize the space consumed terribly well. I note that the commercial solutions often rotate around a semi-circle of disc stacks rather than sliding laterally as this one does. Were I to do this again I might choose such an arrangement to save space.

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