For various... interest-related... reasons, I have decided to take it upon myself to make a disk-duplication station.
Not just one of those "burn many disks at once" stations, but something (mostly) fully automated:
- Grab CD from stack
- Put CD in burner
- -- If CD is bad, put in "bad pile".
- Move CD to printer
- Move printed CD to "done pile".
Tings I have:
- CD-capable printer
- A couple DVD burners (for testing purposes)
- Recycled SCSI CD "Server"
- Receipt printer
- Touchscreen
- 20x2 display (you know, for a quick status glance...)
Things I need:
- mITX motherboard
- 5 Blu-Ray burners
- Large HDD
- Some way to connect above drives
- CD arm mechanism (possibly going to be the hardest, funnest part of the project)
- Finish modifying drive case
- Rolling metal shelving
One thing I'm undecided on is if I just use the same printer for printing out the case covers, or another printer. Either way, I can get some decent printers for relatively inexpensively.