I appreciate your clear explanations and even with your accent, you are quite easy to understand. Obviously, I am late to your party (this video) but these days you can use the cd rom parts for lots of cool stuff. Tiny cnc laser engravers, (Even tiny 3d printers if one were so inclined) come to mind. But I think they need to be DVD burner type? I'm new at this, but am learning quickly, however I'm not sure of the process except that two are needed. And even before I fully got into this stuff, I was already squirreling away old gadgets, mostly because the advancement of tech has been so rapid, seeing these things go to landfills is horrifying.And a lot of it still works! Also being able to do upgrades to things not otherwise designed to be upgraded is pretty cool. Like my projector from astronomically priced metal halide to far cheaper and better quality to the image of LED. (Heck even the really old super 8 whose bulb has been known to burn film. Haven't done it yet) Then I was gifted a 3d printer while finding the world of arduino and all hell broke loose. Hubs isn't thrilled with my growing pile of what he perceives as trash. but fun is the best thing to have. Anyhow, thanks for your time and effort. It's appreciated vastly.
@fredlllll you are right, I got my motors all wrong in this video. The main motor of the cd drive is bldc type and it makes sense, you don't need accurate positioning bur rather accurate high rpm control and which is achieved with a bldc motor.
the main motor of the cd drive is probably a bldc motor.you can drive those with an esc driver. (the ones used for quadcopter motors) i used this one for mine www.banggood.com/Wholesale-XXD-HW30A-30A-Brushless-Motor-ESC-For-Airplane-Quadcopter-p-50621.html?p=K12415734648201408JW also the motor has one or more hallsensors under the rotor.
+TheRadiogeek Sure, I use flux for the removal of parts because it helps break the oxide layer that forms on the solder joints. That oxide layer usually prevents you from making good thermal contact with the soldering iron tip.
Something to try is using a cheap toaster oven to get the board nice and hot before you use the hot air station. It won't melt solder, but should help reduce the time you need to hold the hot air gun on a single part of the board.
+leppie the twitter link is the blue annotation overlay, it's not clickable though because youtube doesn't allow external links. You can however search for my twitter name which is voltlog.
VoltLog yes plenty of times type in the model number of the panel in ebay and they come up usually around $20. the also come with all sorts of ports hdmi, dvi, vga, even audio output. heres a quick search i dont know the model of the panel but here you go. m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=lcd+controller+board&isNewKw=1&isRefine=true&mfs=KWCLK&acimp=0&_trksid=p2056088.m2428.l1311.R1.TR12.TRC2.Xlcd+controll&sqp=lcd+controll
I thought you meant the interface board of the LCD. I have such controller board like you linked from ebay but in the case of this video the lcd panel interface board was damaged, I couldn't reuse it.
