His use of a 3-phase motor from a CD-ROM drive as the generator isn’t particularly unexpected, these motors are ubiquitous and readily generate power when spun up. A simple 3-phase rectifier and ...

The drive shows up as mass storage device (USB MSC). Currently this primarily supports SCSI harddrives, but basic read access is supported for CD-ROM and other SCSI devices. The new ZuluSCSI Blaster ...