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Burn Pictures On A CD-R, No Special Drive Needed

Accepted submission by owl at 2022-07-11 19:50:56
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https://hackaday.com/2022/07/11/burn-pictures-on-a-cd-r-no-special-drive-needed/ [hackaday.com]

When we routinely carry devices holding tens or hundreds of gigabytes of data, it’s sometimes a shock to remember that there was once a time when 650 MB on a CD was a very big deal indeed. These now archaic storage media came first as silver pre-recorded CD-ROMs, then later as recordable CD-Rs. Most people eventually owned CD writer drives, and some fancy ones came with the feature of etching pictures in the unused portions of the disc.

Haven’t got a fancy drive and desire an etched CD-R? No worries, [arduinocelentano] has a solution, in software which writes a disk image for a standard CD writer whose data makes the visible image on the disc.


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