7 Jun
2006
7 Jun
'06
11:39 p.m.
I'm assuming that some of the older scanner
mechanisms could be interfaced to
with your own electronics if you so wanted? (Does anyone know how the actual
scanning head's driven? Is it just a massive linear array of sensors with an
on-board de-multiplexor?)
I would assume it's a linear (as opposed to area) CCD. Now, I spent many
years playing tricks with CCDs, and one thing that's burnt into my memory
is that the drive pulses are critical. Not mild;y critical, but _very_
critical. Trying to get them right for an unknwn device is not my idea of
a good time. It would be easier, I think to get a known CCD and build the
rest of the mechanism from scratch.
Anyway, there is the other problem that if I do get the scanner, what the
heck do I store the data from it on. I am not using multiple 8" disks per
page :-) Do you know of a CD burner that comes with a service manual?
-tony