Teenage Engineering-a-like design costs from $190, and you need to bring your own drive.

A reader, David, asks about viewing an old CD-ROM: “Back in 1995, my art director partner and I created a CD-ROM as an agency anniversary gift for our boss. … A number of years later, I tried to look ...

Photographers looking to build their very own macro photography studio may be interested in a project featured on the Instructables website which uses an old CD ROM drive as the platform to create an ...

Robotic arms and actuators are compelling things to watch, and as popular among the maker set as they are crucial to modern industry. [kthod2000] built a design of their own, which relies on parts ...

Running old CD-ROM games on modern Windows isn't too hard if you know how to manage Windows' compatibility software. But what if you have a Linux desktop and don't want to leave your old Windows games ...

While I was away at school my parents started having trouble with their trust 48X Memorex CD-ROM. It would never recognize the presence of a disk and always prompted us with "Please insert a disk into ...

The project explains the mounting of a VU meter into an old CD-ROM drive case and be installed into the PC. The VU meters are based on VFD displays which are much cooler than LED or LCD displays. The ...