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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>That looks promising. I think I'll be picking up a stack of CD's sometime soon and give it a try.<div><br></div><div>Thanks Andrew.<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: andrew@plumb.org<br>Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:39:36 -0400<br>To: lab@artengine.ca<br>Subject: Re: [Lab] Making clocks with physical media<br><br>Closest I can find is this:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Burning-visible-images-onto-CD-Rs-with-data-beta/" target="_blank">http://www.instructables.com/id/Burning-visible-images-onto-CD-Rs-with-data-beta/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Andrew.</div><div><br><div><div>On 2013-05-22, at 10:35 AM, mike Jans wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div class="ecxhmmessage" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;"><div dir="ltr">I recently saw a clock made from an old hard drive. I had an old laptop hard drive kicking around myself, so I built a tiny one. Its primary purpose is to be a novelty item and decorate my office, but sometimes I look at it for the time too. Unfortunately,<span style="font-size:12pt;"> it lacks any markings or numbers to help read the time so its only really good for getting a rough idea of the time. </span><div><div><br></div><div>I got thinking though, when you burn a DVD, it changes colour where the information is stored. How hard would it be to burn the clock markings and times either radially or with a uniform "up" direction into the disk? Has anyone ever seen a similar project or method for burning specific shapes/patterns into a disc?</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Lab mailing list<br>1. subscribe<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab" target="_blank">http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab</a><br>2. then email<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:Lab@artengine.ca">Lab@artengine.ca</a></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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