CD-ROM hack

I was doing some random surfing here at the fritter due to total boredom when I came across this hack: http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/dlz3 . I can get access to a radio identical to this and I thought the vertical CD hack would be pretty sweet to do. Does anyone know how to modify the drive to make it work like this? I do have an old playstation I can get the plastic snap-in thing for the CD motor, but as far as the sensor that tells the drive to spin down to eject sounds rather difficult.