Crude on the surface, but elegant…

I came across this rather crude-looking home-brew CD changer mechanism in a Slashdot article. It takes me back to my days in High school, when guys built computers with wooden cases. Except this is a wooden mechanical device interfaced to a computer…

I admire the guy’s ingenuity, but with manufactured CD changers selling for a few hundred bucks, I don’t see anyone rushing out to the lumber store to build something like his. Its still kind of intriging, though…