TEXLEM 2012 Photos and Stories

[opcom]

I hope everyone will post their pics and videos, and comment!

Here are some pics from Friday.It was mostly meeting, and setup. There was some great chili and BBQ. I put out some VTVMs on the BS&T table for $5 each, Hakzaw also brought an Argon ion laser. Tomorrow the lumia workshop should start about 9-9:30 ?? Also the door prizes.. I never saw a Pangolin setup before and it is very impressive what it can do. Just saying it has been >2 decades since I last was a laser show and this with some hands on will be a very worthwhile educational experience.

The people that operate Urban 15 are the best, and very friendly and gracious people.

pics from L to R, by rows:
Lumia and projector wrkshop area, and administrative area.
Hakzaw's Argon laser - it was great to see this, wish I could have bought it!
Power unit for laser. It is all complete.
small projector, made real nice RGB images.

Lumia setup
Unique Lumia with big glass glob
Lumia , not alighed yet, just playing around
My VTVMs for sale/trade. $5 each here.

Lumia picture
Auditorium, a 3W beam show set up was runnig all day
Hanging out
Setting up scaffolding.

[ImageLight]

Nice...Keep the pictures coming guys!!!

Wish I could be there with ya..

Mark

[Stuka]

I see a couple of familiar faces...


Who all is attending this year?

[DZ]

I hope you guys are having a blast! Really wish I could have made it. Keep the pics coming!

[opcom]

I see a couple of familiar faces...


Who all is attending this year?

I'll let the organizers answer from the sign-in sheet as to whom is attending because I might leave some people out accidentally.

So far, people have come for one day or two, and many staying for Sunday. I am thinking maybe 20+ in all. We are having a riotous good time and right now at this moment the large auditorium/rehearsal room upstairs in the Urban 15 facility is well-fogged and full of beams of too many colors and directions to try and mention. Maybe 9 projectors? The event is going on well into the night with beam shows, graphics, and lumia, all with lots of music. (and a few hand-held lasers in the mix).

The door prizes are super, I'll let everyone say what they won, but I won a 300mW 445nm analog lab style blue-violet laser from AixiZ. Chuck at AixiZ was very gracious to have donated this expensive door prize! This rocks because I didn't have a blue, just a green.. I want to try my hand at some lumia.

Speaking of lumia,and other stuff, today we had workshops all day and learned about glass for lumia, how to select it, where to find it, how to cut it, and how to vacuum form plastic sheets and make 'copies' of hard-to-find glass textures. There was plenty of hands-on. We also made some plastic warp discs using a torch and some implements of destruction. Another segment of the training was making "torture tubes", where we took little glass bottles and warped them with a map gas torch. Everyone ended up with a granite texture glass disk, a vacuum formed plastic disc made with textures taken from stuff that was lying around, a torture tube, and a warp disc.

Another part of the workshop was projector tuning, where we learned about the different compensation types inside a projector's servo system. It was very educational to see how the gain, high frequency damping, and low frequency damping controls affected the dynamic registration of the beams. These controls interact and it is important to understand them in order to get the best pattern a particular projector can make. The physical mountings were also touched up.

Lots of hands-on, I am sure those who missed this must be disappointed, but next year I hope many more people can attend. None of this stuff is rocket science but it is highly technical and there are so many experience-based ways to do things, and 'best practices' that only the combined experience of several accomplished pros could relate this stuff to us. I go to a lot of engineering and technical seminars and can only say that if some consultancy was providing this event it would cost many hundreds just to get in the door (and would not be as much fun or include food and a place to crash)

I have a bunch of videos to upload and link to, but have to wait on that until I'm home and have a fast connection to my server. Here are a few more pictures.

pics in order, L-R by row:
Two large sets of mirrors oppose each other in the auditorium
Plastic disc before making a warp wheel
These particular cheap earrings make a great number of reflections for lumia
one workshop table -vacuum forming, glass cutting, plastic disc cutting, more..

Nice laser power meter!
hole saws for cutting acrylic or lexan??)
vacuum forming machine
grinder for smoothing edges of glass disks

fused silica tubing
torture tubes
a glass doorknob - very good reflecting..

OK well it's not over yet - Still some to do Sunday

[Displaser]

PL Friends,

TEXLEM was a total success! More details to follow, but the folks at Urban 15 were awesome,
food, shows, workshops, door prizes....wow!

ILDA in San Antonio this year!!! TEXLEM II will happen next year!!!

Greg

[ImageLight]

Congrats Guys,

Glad all went well.... Have a safe trip home.

Best Regards,
Mark

[opcom]

videos and pics are being uploaded now, give it about 12 hours.. 10AM Monday! then it will be made available.The videos show some of the "how-to" for various skills. There are also a few videos of the early part of the laser show. I had no idea how much knowledge and experience was available at this event. Nothing but hit points and experience points as far as the eye could see.

The material will be here:
http://www.bunkerofdoom.com/texlem2012/index.html

[sugeek]

I posted a few pictures...



The videos I need to convert to PL friendly formats.

Thanks to Urban 15 for having us and being wonderful hosts, you have a wonderful thing going on! I can't wait to go back down and visit next time I am in town (LEM or not). The company was good, I had a lot of fun playing with lasers, lumia, being a dork, and hanging out.

As for the door prizes I need to thank DrLava for a Flexmod P3 and I won one of the two grand prizes a certificate for a Mike Dunn laser show of my choice which is AWESOME! I do want to also thank: DZ (shutter kit), Chuck of Aixiz Lasers (FB3, 445 and a 532), Hak - lumia kit, Displacer - lumia kit, Tim Walsh (laser guided scissors), and the others I missed because that was off the top of my head! Pangolin was nice enough to send down t-shirts and other swag, thanks Bill. Another big thanks goes out to Platinum because he brought a case of Viso from Portland so I didn't have to break out my pure caffeine to spike fruit juice.

Everybody deserves a big thanks for making it a great event, I wish I had not had to leave so early today and miss seeing clandestiny.

I am tired, time to sleep.
Adam

[ZeroPoint]

SOOO JEALOUS!!!!! I hope there's an LEM in Phoenix one day soon. I have absolutely no money to travel but am dying to go to one. Glad you guys had a good time. I love the quad lumia setup. I'm a big fan of lumias. I need to get a few different types of glass to experiment some more. Anyway, even though I wasn't there I'll share this with you guys here

This is my lumia setup. For some reason the red appears much brighter on camera. It looks much better in person, of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUXDIAUDtFg

[swamidog]

ZP,

i don't have a scrap of free time until after the heard museum indian market. maybe after that, we'll do a little unofficial AZ gathering. you might like my approach to lumia..



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more pics and video from TXLEM, please!!

SOOO JEALOUS!!!!! I hope there's an LEM in Phoenix one day soon. I have absolutely no money to travel but am dying to go to one. Glad you guys had a good time. I love the quad lumia setup. I'm a big fan of lumias. I need to get a few different types of glass to experiment some more. Anyway, even though I wasn't there I'll share this with you guys here

This is my lumia setup. For some reason the red appears much brighter on camera. It looks much better in person, of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUXDIAUDtFg

[Bradfo69]

ZP,
you might like my approach to lumia..

Without question the most understated statement ever on PL.... jus sayin.

[sugeek]

Mash-up of my cell phone videos with free music in the background due to music licenses with the shows taped...

-Adam

[rodman1369]

I hope you guys are having a blast! Really wish I could have made it. Keep the pics coming!

I put a bunch on Facebook...Don't have good place to load. Feel free to grab and repost at will.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...0908730&type=3

[opcom]

I put a bunch on Facebook...Don't have good place to load. Feel free to grab and repost at will.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...0908730&type=3

I can't see them for some reason. This was displayed.

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I have a TEXLEM 2012 page on my website. Do you mind if I repost there and credit to your username? How about others?

[rodman1369]

I can't see them for some reason. This was displayed.

"This content is currently unavailable
The page you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may have expired, or you may not have permission to view this page."

I have a TEXLEM 2012 page on my website. Do you mind if I repost there and credit to your username? How about others?

I checked and they displayed...Bunch of them! And it's set to Public...try again...If don't work...let me know.
And please grab and post where others can view easily. rodman1369

[LaserSkyDesigns]

Guys these photos and videos look siiiiicckk. I was out of town working on a job, is there any chance there might be a bi-annual TEXLEM? If not would anyone in the Austin area like to get together sometime and run some lasers for fun? I'm looking to learn as much as possible about lasers as they are awesome.

-grant williams