Posts Tagged ‘ usb

CD robot V 2.0! Adding serial control to an old scsi cd duplicator.

My newest project involves reincarnating a very old (1998) cd duplicating robot. It is a DTP-1000 that was originally SCSI only. Due to the fates smiling down upon me I was able to pick it up on ebay for $11. I bought it intending to put an arduino in the place of the control board and probably have to do a lot of reverse engineering. The next day I happened upon this site where, amazingly someone has already opened one of these up and has instructions on how to enable serial control! I still am in awe of how lucky I got and really happy that DarkBane dropped all of that knowledge on the world.

There are a lot of pics below, since that was the one thing I could do to add to the fine directions DarkBane has already provided. Another thing is that in his command set he has two typos. I will quote his post after the pix and note the command set in bold.

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USB Pumpkin light

So my girlfriend really loves halloween, and I love her, so I made her a tiny jack-o-lantern with a usb light. Super simple, I just cut an old usb cable up, pulled out the red and black wires, used a LED resistor calculator (usb provided 5v) Then I soldered in the resistor, heat shrunk it all up, and plugged ‘er in!

usb powered pumpkin

usb powered pumpkin