Video

For scale, the entire unit is about 26" on a side and about 24" tall at the picking tower (center in this picture, above the drive.)

The poor video quality is due to an old camera and bad lighting in my computer room. That said, here are various operations being performed:

• Loading a disc (pick from stack of blanks, move to drive)

• Flipping the disc (eject drive, grab disc, lift and flip, reinsert into drive)

• Coaster toss (for defectives, into the penalty box

• Unloading disc (remove from drive, put into stack of finished discs)

I took a series of photos while the mechanism went through its paces. Unfortunately the disc flipping portion is so dang fast I had to capture it on different passes, so the photo between the fifth and sixth looks out of place.

Pictures of Florian in Action

One: picking a disc from the left stack

Two: at the top, moving the disc to the center

Three: at the center, descending to the drive

Four: coming out of the drive

Five: loading the disc into the flipper

Six: the disc is rotated to the side in order to flip it over

Seven: the (now inverted) disc is loaded back up

Eight: moving to the right, to put the disc down

Nine: the disc is deposited into the right stack