28 thoughts on “ Shake Your PCB Etching, With An Old Optical Drive ” Leonardo says: April 23, 2023 at 7:12 pm Too much hardware for something so simple. In fact ...

Starting from scratch, the GDROM optical drive assembly is gutted, leaving just its metal case and PCB. The IDE cable for the hard disk is then soldered to the pads on the PCB.

So despite the digital age we live in, external optical drives should still have a firm place in our technology landscape. They are readily available and can be purchased for less than $20 on Amazon .

Hitachi-LG outed most of the major details for its forthcoming HyDrive last week, but the company just officially took the wraps off the world's first SSD-equipped laptop optical drive. Frankly ...

On all PCs, optical drives add cost. A basic optical drive for a desktop is cheap enough, maybe $20 in bulk, but you know that cost (and then some) gets passed along to the consumer.

If you just need a simple drive to install a program from a CD-ROM, you can buy an external CD/DVD drive for around $20 from Amazon. Any external optical drive you buy will plug into a USB port on ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you ...

The DiyouPCB open source PCB printer offers a 210mm x 170mm print area and has a print speed of 600mm a minute. The full device including case measures 385 mm x 345mm x 100mm and weighs around 2.6kg.

For video game consoles, 'repair' is limited to repair or replacement of a console's optical drive and requires restoring any technological protection measures that were circumvented or disabled." ...

Market Research on Optical Module PCB in China 2017-2022 - Research and Markets October 03, 2017 06:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time. DUBLIN-- (BUSINESS ...