Michael Kazin wrote: > > I also researched the CD duplicator possibility at one point and found > them way out of RUSLUG's budget. We might be able to make it more > affordable and useful building one ourselves. We just need to buy a > proper duplicator controller a few drives and salvage a big tower > case. We had this cool idea to put a duplicator kiosk on campus which > would let students burn any distro they wanted. > (example duplicator controllers: > http://www.copystars.com/duplicator_controller_10_ctg.htm) >
I think a hardware hacking project to build a duplicator out of spare parts would be a really cool one! However, to me the goal of the project would be the education and fun of trying to get it to work as much as the final product. How about gluing an LCD panel to the side of a tower and running it all off a couple old DVD burners, a spare HDD and a linux distro on a retired PII-500 system? We hand out a lot of "free" CDs and I think people think they are worth what they pay for them. With USB tabs reaching 4+ Gb and many people with broadband capability, I'm not as sure the effort to download and burn a distro is as high a barrier as it once may have been. Within the group, I don't think it's needed. However, if we try more outreach projects (which I favor), handing out disks at a street fair might make the project feasible. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
