DEAMON Tools Lite also supports many other formats and has the ability to create and manage virtual drives from CD, DVD or Blu-Ray. The Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel was released in 2001 but was ...

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.

It’s a 3D scanner built in a very hacker fashion. The X-Y stage that moves the sample is from a KES-400a Blu-Ray drive, salvged from the original “fat” Playstation 3. The Z axis is then ...

Slower access than Solid State Drives. The main storage device in most computer systems. Optical storage: Blu-ray disk Can hold a lot more data than a standard DVD, meaning it can store movies ...