post your eye melty abstracts here

[dkumpula]

Now, if anybody remembers a company called Red-Line Lasers, they made a product called the Beam Scan (XYP-1000 I think it might have also been called) and the Beam Box; I helped design 'em and wrote all the software (6809 and PICs) as a weekend contractor, that's the only real 'industry credentials' I have.

Cool! This was my first real laser. I still own this baby and it is in excellent condition - although I admit it hasn't been used much over the past decade. Thank you for the part you played in its development!



Hope to see you at SELEM!

-David

[laserist]

Wow, what did I miss? We can't share abstracts anymore? Attachment 38577

Back in the day when lasers were still new and shiny (sorry) the then young laser companies discovered galvos and shower glass and dimple tubes and stuff. And all of these and other things were TOP SECRET. There were non-disclosure agreements, non-competes, ICs with their numbers filed off, numbered sets of documentation, and other pain in the ass stupidity… Well you just can't keep the best "secrets" - and it doesn't matter because the #1 best SECRET was right out there in front of everybody, and almost nobody thought it was important - they still don't think it's important - so anybody who gets that little SECRET has a leg up over the long run when measured against any scale except hype. I've just got to say to anybody who thinks their little bit of "IP" is original - well there's a really good chance it isn't - since all of the stuff that didn't make it into the shows way back when was still done before most here were born. Still some of the people who think it's the technology that made their shows great are friends of mine and I'll happily pretend to agree it was just the technology…

[absolom7691]

Do you have a build thread going on this? "6W RGB four port lumia projector (underway)"

Not as of yet. I am still acquiring everything I need for it. Low RPM motors, gear reductions, lasers, mounts, shutters, beam steering actuators, scanthrough galvos, rolled glass...... This isn't something I can throw together quickly. I have about 50% of the materials I need for this. The thing I am lacking most is time. I work 6 days a week and have many projects in progress. I don't do commercial shows so, I enjoy this hobby when I can. The enjoyment, for me, from this hobby comes from building my own devices as well as using them. This may be the same as that 55' Chevy that someone works on for years and just might not get done. I suppose I could start a thread on this but it will only conatin a picture or two of a table filled with parts.


This started out as a great thread but I am checking out of this one. It got too lofty way too fast. Thanks for sharing, all.

[swamidog]

one from the vaults... this was a success from some of my very early attempts to coax 3d lissajous abstracts out of LSX.

[dsli_jon]

...This was my first real laser....

Ya, those were fun, for what they were... you could make some nice sequences for clubs, etc.. Here was one custom-mod from one of the early DSLS-forays into 'RGYO' (mixed, of course..) yeah, this old Sea Dog was making multi-color solid-states way back when some of you kats were still running around the living-room, biting ankles and diodes / dpss were silly-stupid expensive, iirc, it was like ~ $2500. for *50mW* of DPSS Green, but, at the time.. wow, so-amazing...

..'manual color-selection', woo-hoo!

...fun times in the ol' basement shop..
j

[kecked]

I'd love to see some of the laserium stuff since chances are I'd never get to see it in person. Last show I saw was here in Cleveland in 1976. I was 10! It was so impressive I'm still here seeking to reproduce the experience.

[kecked]

BTW: with digisynth you can patch any console in any way you want. I have seen it and played with it and it is truly amazing. I have not tried this but it would give you a taste. If you own reactor which is used to make software synths, you can patch up something like digisynth but I doubt it will be very stable as it is meant for sound. I have an analog moog style synth and I have done some patching with it and it is a blast.

[polishedball]

I'd love to see some of the laserium stuff since chances are I'd never get to see it in person. Last show I saw was here in Cleveland in 1976. I was 10! It was so impressive I'm still here seeking to reproduce the experience.

St. Louis isn't that far.

[swamidog]

here's a new idea i've been working on. i'm waiting for colouredmirrorball to reverse engineer it.

[colouredmirrorball]

All right, all right, I give up. What's the secret?