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We had a project with a lot of planetarium equipment that was shipped to Canada. It was quite the experience in art storage.

Hi Craig, Your results in the first “circle” pic are very similar to the 40lpi 3D lenticular sheets I sourced for the group buy many years ago. Hopefully your new source, Vicgi will produce the same (or better) results. I don’t think I have stacked the lenticulars before… interesting stuff...

Wow! So many cool and impressive D/G and FX wheels have been posted. Our search for a good source of lenticular material that matches the FX we already have in one installation has reached a saga of epic proportions. It took a long time for the test selection of LPI counts and animation or 3D...

Upon returning to this scene from the 80's era of ion systems, I became acquainted with modern diode lasers & galvos, just as you have, by ordering cheap RGB modules online, knowing I would modify them, without much lost from potential screwups. Following Christopher Short's lead, I initially used...

Likewise. My daily driver is a Beelink NUC clone that's hardware incompatible with Win 11 and stuck on Win 10 due to LSX being installed, with PicEdit being my only 3D ILD frame app. Otherwise, I'd prefer Mint. My 'show' computer is a Latte Panda 3 Delta 864 (w/onboard Arduino Uno MCU GPIOs),...

Very nice! Congrats Steve! Greg

bring it... and lattes.

That's awesome!!

I have a spare discoscan lens I won as a door prize years back. Let me know if I need to bring it.

that was random.. but truly looking for an animation here... thnx

If you can bring a spare disco-scan or two, that would be cool. I have the ones that fit on my lasercubes, but I don't know how well those will work just sitting on the aperture of a regular projector. (The scanners on the lasercubes are mounted very close to the aperture glass, and of course the...

Acceptance Speech: I'd like to Thank: Buffo, The King of Sweden, Pangolin's janitor, my high school art teacher Mrs, Legere, and Mrs's Legere's then HOTTT daughter Aimee.. My mentor Cmdr Russ Bell, USN (RTD) and Microsoft paint for the Inspiration. The Rabbit of Caerbannong, Mel...

do you need me to bring some disco-scans, or just my disco suit?

After some changes to make it easier to embroider the logo on a shirt, and a little splash of color, I'm happy to announce this year's SELEM logo, which was submitted by Steve Roberts: Adam

Yeah, I think Brad has a couple Kvant projectors that will work well. We will probably want to put Disco-scan lenses on them though. Adam

So, fun fact: The South Eastern Laser Enthusiast's Meeting is no longer being held in the southeast. ;) Initially, SELEM was held in Newton, North Carolina, which is about an hour outside of Charlotte, NC. So back then, the name accurately described the location of the event. However, in...

John at Technological Artisans in Brooklyn NY, legally sells Analog and Analog to DC/ PWM modules at levels from 2 watts to burns holes through darkly painted car doors. The combo Analog /DC biased /PWM module has incredible linearity and is programmable. 347-606-1076...

... find an image/sketch of a heart, scale the center slightly in 2-3 steps and arrange them in a "pumping"-sequence :cool:

honestly, i thought this was a post about organ smuggling. my bad!

Adam, thank you for the reply! I definitely have interest in building my own module "from scratch" that is, sourcing the diodes and assembling the mirrors, mounts, etc. Will definitely check out the resources you linked. Also, I am based in New York so a bit far from the South East but sounds like...

... what's with the older versions? - have a working Win98SE and a laptop win DOS+Win3.1 installed >:)

My primary computer for lasing, cnc, cad, cam et al was a Win10 Pro for years but recently and reluctantly upgraded to Win11 Pro after the following. I first upgraded my wife's 4 year old laptop from Win10 to Win11 and kicked the tires of Win11 on it for a few months, then later upgraded my Win10...

his 60k projector is only about 1W, so we'll have to use some low power systems for the 30's.

I would really like to see this show in the planetarium dome we'll have set up on the auditorium side of the ballroom. The only issue might be getting all 3 projectors that are required for this show to be properly aligned and centered on the dome, but I think we can work it out. David...

There are several suppliers in China that can sell you the diode modules you'll need to build another projector, including Goldenstar, Able, and OptLaser, but if you only want something in the 500 mw - 1 watt range, you might be better off building your own modules. This is a *great* way to learn...

That's a pretty good rate! I think the Holiday Inn Express in Elkton was around $120 per night, and even at that price point people complained that it wasn't a nice place to stay. (Recent reviews suggest that it hasn't improved by much - if at all.) Considering that the HIE in Elkton, MD is...

I haven't heard much chatter about which hotel people are staying at this year. I remember Brad & Adam talking about another Holiday Inn the opposite direction from the one we used to stay at. I did some searching and think I found it. It is 7.4 miles from the venue. Google rates it as a 4...