alt.CES – DIY full auto book scanner

1. The Shuttle/The Glider
2. The Balance
3. Controller
4. Computer
5. Scanner
6. Rack
7. Printer

• The Glider is wound up, The Shuttle is at the right position.
• The Shuttle moves to the left.
• The Glider winds down until it touches the book.
• The Shuttles moves to the right. The Glider, touching the book, filps the page.
• The Glider winds up.
• The Balance is lift up. The computer detects the event and sends message to the scanner.
• The machine pauses for 35 seconds, while the scannaer is working.
• The Balance lifts down.
• Repeat.

This is just what I was hoping someone had built! Totally awesome. Now it just needs to add OCR and text-to-speech to convert to MP3s that you can listen to. Thanks to woyzeck in the comments for the link.