A reader, David, asks about viewing an old CD-ROM: “Back in 1995, my art director partner and I created a CD-ROM as an agency anniversary gift for our boss. … A number of years later, I tried to look ...

Photographers looking to build their very own macro photography studio may be interested in a project featured on the Instructables website which uses an old CD ROM drive as the platform to create an ...

Robotic arms and actuators are compelling things to watch, and as popular among the maker set as they are crucial to modern industry. [kthod2000] built a design of their own, which relies on parts ...

While I was away at school my parents started having trouble with their trust 48X Memorex CD-ROM. It would never recognize the presence of a disk and always prompted us with "Please insert a disk into ...

Running old CD-ROM games on modern Windows isn't too hard if you know how to manage Windows' compatibility software. But what if you have a Linux desktop and don't want to leave your old Windows games ...

In an age of streaming media it’s easy to forget the audio CD, but they still remain as a physical format from the days when the “Play” button was not yet the “Pay” button. A CD player may no longer ...