Hacking CD/DVD/Blu-ray Optical Pickup Unit (OPU) for Fun and Scientific Research
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- This video shows my OPU hacking for scientific research....such as cell imaging, micro-hole machining, bioassay sensing, atomic force microscopy nano-imaging....There are other hacking works described in these open-access review papers:
1. Hacking CD/DVD/Blu-ray for Biosensing
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/...
2. Micro and nanoscale 3D printing using optical pickup unit from a gaming console
www.nature.com/articles/s4200...
3. Using DVD optics for Nano-, Micro-, Milli-Newton to several Newtons force measurements:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e0...
You can find the video slides here:
drive.google.com/open?id=1NFf... 
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This is amazing. Thank you for your contributions to science and to the breadth of humanity's knowledge..
Thank you! :)
@@EdwinHwuHacks4Science sir it is 250nm then why when u made hole on some surface it was 100micron , and why it make smaller indentation in disc then its actual spot size ? it still amazing in 2023
I have often wondered about the other uses for these OPU's..they are such a practical little unit with a lot of potential...to see this just made my day....
Isn't mass production wonderful?
Yep! A treasure box many researcher overlooked. :)
@@frtard You got it! If there is only one OPU in the world, will cost million USD ;p
I'm doing research on this... Thank you for your help!
Welcome! :)
This is an outstanding work! Thanks a lot for sharing. I always had in mind to use this guys during my PhD. for Interferometry applications.
Thanks! :D The OPU can be hacked for interferometry as well ;)
Amazing work!
Thanks! :)
Excellent reuse of this OPU technology. The small precise optical elements and the small compactness of the unit definitely allows the use of a possibly portable spectroscopic in field analysis of small microscopic events. I thought before about using parts off the dvd drives for similar applications but unfortunately life gets in the way of progress. There is definitely possibilities of refinements and further applications. Excellent video and presentation! Bravo!
Now we are using OPU for micro/nanoscale 3D printing :)
@@EdwinHwuHacks4Science nice in the realm of nano scale printing any other means to control the flow heat or temperature stability during the printing process?
Absolutely awesome. I am literally in aw.
I have played with my own spec and electron microscopes, and only in fleeting thoughts had a thought about using writer/burners. To see it in action and done so well is brilliant. This makes me so happy. Especially knowing you are in it to make things better.
Thank you! Keep rockin
Thanks for your kind words! I am really glad that you like it😊I should make another video using Blu-ray for micro/nanoscale 3D printing 😉
@@EdwinHwuHacks4Science yes. Yes you should. Lol
@@gibbyrockerhunter before the 3D printing video, you can read my paper first ;) www.nature.com/articles/s42005-021-00532-4
Awesome finding this! I was looking for a beam splitter from a Blueray to use for an interferometer for very wideband spectrum analysis and reading what's been used before. Found this research paper and video at the top of the Google search list. Excellent work! I haven't read the paper yet... though downloaded to read later. I assume there is open source software and more detailed plans from briefly watching the video. I comment again if I don't find. Looks like some really excellent work and again, thank you for sharing!
I guess while I'm commenting... any suggestions regarding optical materials that are cost effective like first surface mirror, beam splitter, etc.? I was wondering about the dental mirrors as they came up as most cost effective on eBay in my first search (2nd search of first surface mirrors was some more cost effective options) and I have a few of the dental mirrors around from over the years from kits I wanted the other tools from.
Wondering what can be done with DVD and CD players too?
I've thought about using a harddrive actuator for a diffraction grating control also so can use a more precise blueray disc with the finer lines to sweep for a IR-Vis-UV webcam spectrometer. I just need to somehow get my handlers to let me do some hands on work. Thanks again for your time, service and support!
You can find many useful optical components inside an OPU :)
This is awesome!
Thanks! :)
Excellent video
Thanks! :)
Excellent video ,👆👍👍
Dr congratulations, it's a wonderful project.
I am trying to recreate it, however I still have doubts about the interface, more specifically how to pass analog signals to the program you use and more about the electronics and the program, what sofware do you use? what microcontroller do you use? How does it go from an analog signal to labview? I mean what I don't understand is how to connect everything to the pc
The OPU controller was developed by my colleague. Maybe you can read this paper for more details about labview and controls:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067222000530
Quite amazing fun work from another scientist that also does AFM based work. In your earlier lecture video, there was an inaudible portion where you had discussed the success rate of achieving vibration isolation using piezo buzzers. What would you say your success rate was in generating an acceptably isolated DIY AFM set-up?
Do you mean using the pizo buzzer AFM scanner?
@@EdwinHwuHacks4Science Yes!
@@EdwinHwuHacks4Science do you have circuit diagram ..could you send me gk786376@gmail.com
@@GobindKumar-kr7mw the piezo buzzer can be controlled by any AFM controller :)
NIce thing. What softwware do you use to control the OPU?
It depends, I use labview to control the preamplifier for the OPU. You can also use online freeware to control the optical drive (but no OPU control).
I have the optics and the laser diodes needed for this but I don’t think have the pdic or the component that holds the optics. Can I still accomplish biosensing. Also is this setup capable of optical trapping?
for sure!
thank you so much ! this is my actual projet
Glad to know you are working on it ;)
Gracias por el aporte de valioso conocimiento
Measure the flatness of a master surface plate.
Do you mean using AFM? :)
He is really genius
Thanks! ;)
This was 4 years ago. Are there any commercial products available that use the OPU AFM technology?
Yes, there is one startup, maybe you can google DIY AFM.
I was curious to know, if it is possible to directly read the raw filestream from the drive? Also at the same time track the position of the laser or if its possible to read that area data in the raw stream?
Yes, it's possible....but you need to process the 0s and 1s yourself ;)
@@EdwinHwuHacks4Science oh yeah sure :D that means with that technic, you could build a laseremulator, that can always response the correct data for a requested area? :D But that would be to easy i guess? Else there should already be modchips for ps5 and xbox series x 🤔
@@Marco-xz7rf you need to deal with "error correction code" which is 1/4 on the disc :)
@@EdwinHwuHacks4Science ohhh, now it's getting interesting :D
Excellent, I would like to make this
Cool! :)))
❤ Amazing! Mr.Spock for sure would do such things if he found a DVD drive. ⚗🔬
That's true hacker spirit - not like foolish kids shooting their eyes out with homemade cat igniters (aka overstrong laser pointers).
Question: Can the voice coil mechanism of the OPU be used or modded into a galvo for projecting laser show vector graphics?
The voice coil can actuate z and x axis about 1 mm range :)
blue beam lithography for diy chip
Unbelievable!
Thanks! :)
Good morning sir, i'm trying to build and develop a photometric analysis module using an (opu), this detection system will be used to performe photoreflectance spectroscopic measurements in order to characterize the surface of optoelectronic materials, could you please refer me to some articles that could help me with this project?
Maybe you can check out my articles in the description ;)
What's the OPU you use? So that we don't need to figure out the pin again.
My paper has those pin out of 3 OPUs :)
@@EdwinHwuHacks4Science dear sir I really liked your paper ..could you please help me...I Don't know how to control PDIC could you please send me circuit diagram. mY MAIL IS GK786376@GMAIL.COM
@@GobindKumar-kr7mw you can find it in my review paper supplementary material.
What is a good hardware for data acquisition and control signal generation in this case? I'm searching a setup that can be accessed by the everyday hobbyist. I have seen the circuits but there is still this obstacle, considering that access to high resolution oscilloscopes is not always possible...
I bet that for most labs the stage of data acquisition is so trivial that they don't even mention it XD.
Reading a lot of papers about OPU here and a lot of information about DAC/ ADC. Thank you very much for the information and the amazing video! I will implement this project physically :)
@@OskarNendes Thanks, recently we are going to publish one paper details control system and software interface. Will make a new video about that :)
@@EdwinHwuHacks4Science Amazing! :)
The analog discovery is a good interfacing tool for such in a synchronous way. Currently using it for interferometry.
Maybe a surface roughness meter
Good idea!
I happened to read this paper a few weeks ago! I''d love to bounce some questions off of you if you have the time.
Cool!
Treasure trove of information
Thank you!
Octoprint? ;-)
3D printing?
@@EdwinHwuHacks4Science Anet and Zortrax.
Would you tell us please which is the OPU in this part of the video and also what kind of controller are you using ?
ruclips.net/video/5bqujaldaCQ/видео.html
The controller is made by my colleague at that time. You can write to:info@mpro-gmbh.de
opu is my second god
OPU is my only god ;p
Amazing man !!! @appliedscience
Thank you! But sadly not so many citation ;p