Secret CD-drive stash

This Instructable will show you how to make your own secret CD-drive stash in which you can put your important CDs,DVDs or other flat objects.

Step 1 What you need:

To make your secret CD-drive stash you'll need:
-A CD drive (preferably one that you don't need anymore)
-A drill with a 5/32inch bit
-A screwdriver
-Soldering equipment
-Tape (preferably vinyl electrical tape)
-Clear, epoxy-like glue
-Wire (might not be necessary)
-Double-sided mounting tape
- A dremel or a saw
-A 4 AA battery holder
-4 AA batteries
-A pair of earphones (they'll act as a key to your stash)

Comments

[pmn9393]

i do this all the time, but i use a paperclip in the manual eject hole, its much simpler, and i can reuse the drive if i ever need to

[mdog93]

If you leave the headphones in does that not just keep the button down and close it again? If not how do you get it to close.

It's a nice idea but i think it would have been easier to use the jack as the actualy switch. For example solder one wire to the ground contact (sleeve) and the other to either of the contacts (tip or ring) then providing the jack isn't a 'normally closed' jack with a sprung break contact when you plug in headphones the circuit is completed allowing the current to flow through the headphones and then throught the motor and so on.

Or would that not work?

[Candymanproductions]

That would possibly work too, good idea.
About your first question: The drive won't close when you leave the earphones in, although you should take them out when it is open because leaving them in will drain the battery. To close the drive simply push the CD holder back in.

[mdog93]

okay. I like it, i just wish the storage was the size of the drive, instead of only being that little flat space. Mybe if you took of the liitle tabs that hold the front cover on and glued the cover to the disc draw front then the whole front would come out when you pressed the button?

[Candymanproductions]

That might work but even if you did that you wouldn't get more storage space because the inner plastic structure that holds the disk draw would still be in the way. If you did manage to get the front cover to come out with the disk draw you would also have to lengthen the wires to prevent them from ripping off when the front comes out. But it is a good idea to get more storage space!

[mdog93]

yes you would have to lengthen the wires. Hardest part would be finding a way of keeping the draw etc. supported whilst gutting as much as pssible to make room.

[Candymanproductions]

Yes, that would be a challenge to do.

[zack247]

a very unique idea to use headphones as the switch!
a further step to keep it more safe would be to use some sort of security screw that is hard to get open, like the screws nintendo used to use.

[ac1D]

The screw nintendo used to use could be open using a bic pen lol :-)

[zack247]

true but that was just an example.
theres also those triangle screws, i dont know of any way to get those out but messing around with a flathead screwdriver.

--on second thought it could be easier to just weld the case shut or something.

[ac1D]

Weld? Who doesn't have an dremel?
My point is just, any thing you do to protect it, we still will be able to take it.. it's why, I guess, he call this a secret stash, and not a safe ;-)

[zack247]

i suppose youve got a good point there.
but i think that this was done the way it was because no ones really going to think theres anything but cd drive inside a cd drive, unless theyve read this instructable, that is.

[ac1D]

after reading instructables, you can't really thing anything you see still has it's original fonction Lol :-)

[kelseymh]

http://www.instructables.com/id/Screwdriver-with-triangular-head/

[Lithium Rain]

Awww, you're spamming my project! I didn't know you cared! :D

[kelseymh]

:-D I don't think it's spam if someone else does it ;->