Build your own CD player for under $20
Taken a look on eBay lately? Have you seen the IDE CDROM drives that are typically on offer for only a few dollars? Some of them are even brand new and readily available in bulk quantities. Question is; why would you want them? - they're entire obsolete!
Answer; http://siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_109528/article.html
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Because after paying that magazines subscription price, 20 bucks is all you have left! $71.00 + per year, priced like a textbook. Don't get me wrong, I am sure it's worth every penny, to someone, and as the U S Dollar goes down the Iraqiei Lew, I am sure it will only get higher priced. Hmmm, beter buy now!
If you do not believe in MAGIC, Consider how currency has value simply by printing it, and is then traded for real assets.
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Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants - but debt is the money of slaves
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There simply is no "Happy Spam" If you do it you will disappear from this forum.
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They have no choice!
It is in my opinion that the recent high cover price of electronics magazines immensely compensates for today's poor sales. If they didn't charge this rather high fee - they'd surely be out of business.
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EPE'S rate is only $18.99 for a year so why is SC $71.00.In my opinion it's not 4x better than EPE so why is theirs so much more for a year they trying to put epe out of business
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Elektor
Well, how about Elektor - their cover price is close to AUS $10 (even more if imported). Very few, if any newsagents stock this magazine in Australia now because of this high price (about AUS $15) But I have to say that Elektor is very professional. Most projects implement double sided PC boards. Quote from one of my old Tafe teachers; "Silicon Chip reads like it was written by a salesman, Elektor is certainly produced by a team of academics"
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Don't get me wrong,their all fine mags and some issue's are worth double the price while some issue's are not worth a second glance and that's the problem when you haven't got ready access to the printed version every month and buy a yearly subscription you get a lot of junk that doesn't interest you.If you buy just the month's that you want it doesn't take to many issues to equal the price of a yearly subscription in the case of EPE 3 issues is almost the price of a year SC would be about 6 issue's and Elektor is just expensive either way.So if SC is written by a salesman, Elektor is certainly produced by a team of academics who judging by the price's writes EPE ?
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After the issues of prices of various Magazines, the said player willplay wav files only or MP3 also- is not clear.Originally Posted by T.Jackson
Today whaen you get a MP3 player working of 512Mb, and off single cell-- , i feel no point in hanging on to cd drives that occupy lot of space in the domestic front and finally not useful if you go out.
Last edited by mvs_sarma; - 11th November 2007 at 03:59.
Regards,
Sarma
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At a guess, I'd say that it would depend on what formats the player is capable of. I believe that the project is merely an interface to the player that does little more than control / send commands to it. Perhaps I'm mistaken? - I've never really dabbled in this area before. (I haven't read the article either)
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