For the last ten to fifteen years, optical drives have been fading out of existence. There’s little reason to have them around anymore unless you are serious about archiving data or unconvinced that ...

There’s a whole lot of interesting mechanics, optics, and electronics inside a Blu-ray drive, and [scanlime] a.k.a. [Micah Scott] thinks those bits can be reused for some interesting project. [Micah] ...

Living in the future if one thing is clear, it's that digital media is king. In the gaming world, it's becoming far more common to buy games digitally than it is to purchase physical copies. This has ...

If you are looking for a project to keep you busy that uses a Raspberry Pi mini PC, you might be interested in this awesome Raspberry Pi controlled mini CNC Laser engraver built by Xiang Zhai. The ...

Designed specifically for professional storage applications, such as document and medical imaging, e-mail archiving, multimedia projects, graphic design, and audio/video editing/authoring, the ProDATA ...

Sharp will be introducing a higher-power blue-violet laser soon, intended for use in Blu-ray and HD DVD drives. The greater output power of the laser will enable it to read discs spinning at a faster ...