Jack the Ripper 3d printable optical media ripping automation robot

"Jack the Ripper" 3d printable optical media ripping automation robot will help you move tons of DVDs or CDs trough the optical drive.





From project website:

Aims were:

• Modular software and hardware design
• Open source
• Reliable
• Low cost
• Using off-the-shelf electronics

A stack of discs are placed into the “in tray”. An arm moves over to the stack and grabs the top disc. The disc is then lowered into the drive tray. Ripping takes place. Once complete the disc is removed from the drive tray and the arm takes it over to the “out tray” and places it there.
A Raspberry Pi is used to control the robot and a PC is used to control the overall process and the ripping.

Scheme of Jacks electronics:

http://www.britishideas.com/tag/robot/

https://github.com/ajayre/JacktheRipperBot

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New 3d printing category on Piratebay

As I was browsing The Pirate Bay today I'v noticed new category: Physibles 
It is all about real world objects and 3d printing related files.
At this time it has only four entries, but I'm sure it will grow as the 3d printing goes mainstream. Intellectual property rights issues related to 3d objects will be interesting to observe ....

http://thepiratebay.org/blog/203
From the blog:

Evolution: New category.

We're always trying to foresee the future a bit here at TPB. One of the things that we really know is that we as a society will always share. Digital communication has made that a lot easier and will continue to do so. And after the internets evolutionized data to go from analog to digital, it's time for the next step.

Today most data is born digitally. It's not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We don't talk about how to rip anything without losing quality since we make perfect 1 to 1 digital copies of things. Music, movies, books, all come from the digital sphere. But we're physical people and we need objects to touch sometimes as well!

We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.

The benefit to society is huge. No more shipping huge amount of products around the world. No more shipping the broken products back. No more child labour. We'll be able to print food for hungry people. We'll be able to share not only a recipe, but the full meal. We'll be able to actually copy that floppy, if we needed one.

We believe that the future of sharing is about physible data. We're thinking of temporarily renaming ourselves to The Product Bay - but we had no graphical artist around to make a logo. In the future, we'll download one.

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