Hackaday4y
An Arduino And A CD-ROM Drive Makes A CD Player
It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.
PC Magazine4y
CD-ROM drives
Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.
Hackaday1y
A Network Adapter Thinks It’s A CD-ROM. Restore Its True Calling!
A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there ...
WTOP News7d
How to Build a CD Ladder for Retirement
Certificates of deposit rates dipped moderately in the second half of 2024 due to Federal Reserve interest rate cuts but have bounced back in 2025, with the best CD rates falling into the 4.5% range.