So I’ve had a very busy run of weekends, not leaving much time for hackery. Looks like Ben Heck has beaten me to the punch in modding a carousel. He connected his to an xbox 360. As well as spurring me on this has given me some good tips of how to do it.

Before the advent of the mp3 the best way to have all your music on demand was to own a CD carousel like this. One of my friends had one at the time which lead me to the idea of replacing the CD player for one that read DVDs. However DivX/MPG4 and large harddrives rendered that idea a bit redundant before I had a chance to put it into practice. Since Blu-ray has stepped up the required storage size, added to the annoyance of copy protection in those and the PS3 game, the idea seems like a good one again.