Comment by dr_coffee

Hackaday has featured a couple of projects featuring the ps3 optical pickup unit. The author of one of the projects breaks out the 40-pin ribbon cable and is able to drive it with some simple circuitry

https://hackaday.io/project/9205-blubeam-a-scanning-laser-mi...

https://hackaday.com/2019/11/12/tearing-down-a-ps3-blu-ray-d...