Hello everybody.
Well first let me introduce myself, my name is Tony. I'm still quite new to Linux so my knowledge on how-to do everything is limited so just keep that in mind.
Ok so on to the project. I'm building a Mega DVD/CD changer for my computer. It's going to have the ability to read and write both. My plan is to have 2 USB DVD writers in it. The whole automatic changer setup is going to use a microcontroller to do all of the controls for the mechanicals, with only basic commands issued to it via a serial connection from the PC. Ex. "Disc 22 Tray 2" or something similar. I can build and do all the programming on the changer itself but I don’t have a clue as to how to make a program for Linux. That’s where I need your guys help. That only programming knowledge I have is in Visual Basic.
Ok so now onto the software side of things, the part I need help in. But first some background of what I want the changer for. I want to store all of my DVDs and CD and computer program DVD/CDs and have access to anyone of them at anytime via my network. Basically it’s going to be a giant mechanical server. What I was thinking for the software side of things would be to have a folder accessible via the network that has individual folders for each DVD/CD in the changer. Once a user opens the folder of choice, the computer issues a command to the changer to put that requested DVD/CD into an open/unused DVD drive and then patches the user to the DVD drive to access the data. I hope that makes since. Once I get this whole setup working I plan on making it also do small run DVD/CD ripping/ writing. I plan on documenting the whole thing and having the whole thing open source so others can build one as well. So if anyone can help please do so, Thanks a bunch.
Tony