His use of a 3-phase motor from a CD-ROM drive as the generator isn’t particularly unexpected, these motors are ubiquitous and readily generate power when spun up. A simple 3-phase rectifier and ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

ZuluIDE™ is a hardware interface between IDE bus and SD cards. Currently it supports emulating ATAPI CD-ROM drives, Zip Drive 100, and a generic removable drive by providing access to image files ...

ZuluSCSI uses raw hard drive image files, which are stored on a FAT32 or exFAT-formatted SD card. These are often referred to as "hda" files. To use a BIN/CUE image with ZuluSCSI, name both files with ...

This solution entails that you try changing the SATA port in which your CD/DVD drive is plugged into. In order to do this, you will need to open your PC/Laptop Case, so it’s highly recommended ...

The cool thing about this project is he did not actually use the CD-ROM drive like you think he would — he chucked the spindle motor and instead is spinning the disk using the tray ejection motor!