i wonder if anyone's hacked their CD burner to make custom patterns on burned CDs

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

i wonder if anyone's hacked their CD burner to make custom patterns on burned CDs

EDIT: apparently yes! https://hackaday.io/project/186303-burning-pictures-on-a-compact-disc-surface

[azonenberg@ioc.exchange]

@aeva you mean like the old lightscribe stuff?

[azonenberg@ioc.exchange]

@aeva although that was drawing on the non-data side of the disk, probably thermal printing with the laser or so

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@azonenberg I was just thinking how when you burn a CD, the appearance of the data side changes for the part where you wrote something. like the worlds most affordable diffraction grating pattern, perhaps