http://home.att.net/~andrebsd/desk.wmv is a video of it actualy working (sorry for the wmv, but my webcam is cheap and dies with most software & it seems as though slashdot wont let me link to the second link [probily to close to the other one])
Incase your wondering, yes that is a garage door opener... so if you just make the panels that hold the stuff bigger, you can make more sutff "disapear" when you dont want it.
Well, I have a cd changer for computers made by NSM... It's scsi (comes with a 2x reader origionaly) so all you gotta do is find a scsi dvd burner (or a long enough ide cable and convert it, since the motors are all powered by a com port anyway) and replace thd drive, (or like in my case, a cd-rw - had the drive for a while, so at the time a dvd burner would have cost to much) then you have 100 dvd's you can burn data to automatically, and when those are full just swap them out for new ones.
Now the problem is, you can only get 430gig's out of one changer using single layer dvd's... Double would bring you to 970gig's per changer.
Assuming you can get the unit for 100 bucks or so, and the dvd drive costing 100 (69 bucks at frys).. Then you have a 200 dollar backup unit that can store 430gigs of information onto dvd's
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Make a system like I did so with the push of a button your stuff "disapears" behind the desk.
http://home.att.net/~andrebsd/desk.jpg thats the whole motor contraption to get my monitor to "disapear" when i dont want to see it...
http://home.att.net/~andrebsd/desk.wmv is a video of it actualy working (sorry for the wmv, but my webcam is cheap and dies with most software & it seems as though slashdot wont let me link to the second link [probily to close to the other one])
Incase your wondering, yes that is a garage door opener... so if you just make the panels that hold the stuff bigger, you can make more sutff "disapear" when you dont want it.
Well, I have a cd changer for computers made by NSM... It's scsi (comes with a 2x reader origionaly) so all you gotta do is find a scsi dvd burner (or a long enough ide cable and convert it, since the motors are all powered by a com port anyway) and replace thd drive, (or like in my case, a cd-rw - had the drive for a while, so at the time a dvd burner would have cost to much) then you have 100 dvd's you can burn data to automatically, and when those are full just swap them out for new ones.
Now the problem is, you can only get 430gig's out of one changer using single layer dvd's... Double would bring you to 970gig's per changer.
Assuming you can get the unit for 100 bucks or so, and the dvd drive costing 100 (69 bucks at frys).. Then you have a 200 dollar backup unit that can store 430gigs of information onto dvd's
http://www.research.earthlink.net/confmgr/ Earthlink has that software, its still beta. But it does video/audio on PC/Mac/*Nix