CD Picture Etcher
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A number of years ago, HP came out with a technology called LightScribe. Essentially, it allowed your use the CD burner’s laser to draw images onto the label side of a CD-R. My first thought was, “Cool!”. My second thought was, “I wonder if I could figure out how to do this myself?”
Apparently, I was not the only one who was curious about this type of knowledge because argon on the Instructables website has developed a method of burning visible images onto CD-Rs with data.
Now please be aware that his is still in beta, as argon points out, and you aren’t going to be generating photo quality output, but it really shows some promise! This could be a very interesting way of encoding information so that it looks like gibberish but the information become apparent when you burn it to CD! Or, how about an encrypted message in an ISO? There are tons of possibilities!
If you decide to follow this project to completion, I would love to see some of your results!
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2 Responses to “CD Picture Etcher”
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Raymond Says:
May 7th, 2007 at 10:23 amNice find,
Thanks
Ray
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Rob Dunn Says:
May 8th, 2007 at 12:07 pmI think someone else did something similar to this called ‘disc tattooing’, but it could only work with unwritten segments of the disc (also making it impossible to write on those areas of the disc).
Some further (but dated) info, if you can get past the crazy picture of “Brian” on the top of the page!:
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3463801Rob
