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This sounds great, Adam! I know I'm rather ignorant when it comes to these new laser-based lighting engines, especially when it comes to compliance, and I'm sure others would like to learn more about this topic as well. Only issue might be with the time - I think Brad may have had dinner...

For anyone interested, I'll be doing an informal presentation at 6pm on Thursday the 7th on the technology and compliance strategies surrounding laser pumped phosphor as light sources for projectors, stage lighting and flashlights. It's a weird niche of very new tech in the world of lasers and...

Ah - hadn't considered excimer lasers, lol! Whenever I think Thyratron I automatically think CVL, especially since I just learned that some CVLs were frequency-doubled (or even tripled) to create short UV and deep UV pulses. Adam

Honestly, that's nice work Guido! Adam

Please bring it Hank! :D Adam

http://www.mylaserpage.de/down/TMP/Heart_Animated_2.mp4 Really funny :-)

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Search for an Heart as SVG Convert it to my PIC Format Put it on a Timeline Resize it Add an Curve Size XY Not 100% Realistic but funny :-) 5min work. http://www.mylaserpage.de/down/TMP/Heart_Animated.mp4

You're very welcome, Dean. Glad to hear that your puddie-cat is happy.🤗 Cool! 😎 🤔 Hmm... 🙄 💡 Perhaps a default 'config.ini' text file with the settings could be edited, saved, and parsed upon launch of Parametric5, similar to a Raspberry Pi's OS config? Just a thought. There it goes. . , ;...

Thanks for the tip, Roj! The 'music server' is a jukebox/multi-channel audio processor app that I wrote called Parametric5 (I've yet to post the current version). The app now starts on reboot and the playlist saves to a file dynamically, so it always comes up as last left. One of the problems...

Ok Dean, let's try to make your cat happy. You've provided the following info: Sounds like your W10 music server is running 24/7, until MS forces an update reboot and the music server's 'process' doesn't automatically restart. I assume that: a) the 'music server' must be a legacy app that...

After an unsolicited reboot, my cat expects the system to return to EXACTLY as it was last left. *nyancat

Just in case you're not aware, Mr A.I. Google says" Hope it doesn't piss off your cat. 😎 After considering the info from Explaining Computers, I'm leaning toward keeping Win 10, just for retaining the ability to use PicEdit for offline plotting 3D ILD frames and storing the files on my NAS for...

Dean makes an important point, which leads me to wonder if it is mere coincidence that an odd number of Windows is far, far more common...if you stop and think about it, how could this be shear coincidence? :)

As far as I'm concerned, the end of Win10 support can't come soon enough- I'm sick and tired of having to restart the processes on my W10 music server every time a cat pisses in the road because of some frivolous furniture rearranging update that causes an auto reboot of the system. Windows...

No, common garden ArF

I can bring one bean-bag chair if needed.

Are you working on a Copper Vapor laser, by chance? Just curious... Adam

Just wanted to remind everyone that we will have an actual inflatable planetarium dome set up in the auditorium side of the venue this year. This is much larger than the igloo-style dome we had last year! For some idea of scale, here is a somewhat blurry picture of Mike Muhler inside the new...

Very happy with Windows 10. Current hardware won't run Windows 11 due to that pesky TPM Bollix. I'm in the same boat - I have a pair of machines running Windows 10 that can't be upgraded to Windows 11 due to the lack of TPM support. I suppose I will just have to buy new motherboards for those...

Can you arrange a very sensitive power meter (uW range)? You should see a change in power when tuning the wavelength. Once the new wavelength is settled, the pump PZT mirror should stay optimizing. If you find the same power on specific wavelengths (try to go switch between 2 wavelengths), the PZT...

Windows 10: Four Months to Go Turning a Windows 10 PC into a Chromebook These FYIs are NOT my recommendations. Personally, I dislike cloud computing and being tracked by Big Brother, Mr Google. In fact, since mentioning my Latte Panda 3 Delta on this thread, I've been bombarded with Google...

Very happy with Windows 10. Current hardware won't run Windows 11 due to that pesky TPM Bollix. As for my two ancient laptops that run Windows XP and Windows 7 ....... :question: I'll update them right after I get a smart meter ....... O_o

Thanks for the replies.