[Andreas] took on the popular project which combines a hard drive and optical mouse to build a scratch controller. The gist of the build is that you use an optical mouse sensor to track the ...

An optical disc (CD, DVD) or USB drive that contains a bootable program that takes control of the computer. Computers are typically configured to look for the OS on a CD or DVD first and then the ...

launched by the CD burner. As prices of writeable media and drives dropped, consumers rushed to duplicate games, create their own mix CDs, and backup their data on optical disc. It was a halcyon time.