Hi everybody.
It’s been quite a few years since I have been here.
ok so why am I here again.
Well I have ended up playing with lasers again.
A quick a little about me.
ok I’m old school. Very old school now being 82 years old. Back in the 90s I owned a laser hire company here in the UK.
we had various lasers back then to include 5 watt argon, white lights, smaller air cooled argon lasers etc.
we used very early computers running windows 3.11. To control them Remember those? And also pm19 controllers etc etc.
we were very popular in the old rave scene and was working every weekend. Lighting up events etc.
anyway enough of me rambling on.
I’ve come back because I am going to build a proper old school laser system again.
what started this off?
I was given a old maplin red 2mw laser from a junk box I had years ago. So I started playing with it.
ohhhh! Those were the days. A little hene red laser with 2 motors with mirrors attached.
Got me looking on eBay to see what lasers are about.
Oh my. There’s so much Chinese rubbish on there. Anything with a scanning system now uses little diode lasers. what has happened?
The same as the music industry I guess. Vinyl records were best and still are but now we got rubbish mp3s
There not lasers.
Alittle like the movie crocodile Dundee. ((That’s not a knife)). Pulls it a machete. ((Now that’s a knife)).
For those who haven’t seen it.
https://youtu.be/POJtaO2xB_o
A real laser is 6ft long. Takes massive amounts of power and cooling to run it.
makes me laugh. The poor younger generation have no idea what they have missed.
Anyway.
So I feel like building something real.
I am going to build a proper laser system from scratch. Like we used to.
I will take advantage of modern computers and software as they now have got a lot better since windows 3.11.
I will keep the lasers to a sensible size so I can run them at home from 13 amp sockets.
i want 7 colours so that will include argon and hene red lasers.
a proper beam table to bounce the beams to different heads and effects.
galvos and motor mirrors for effects.
for in here I will include a full build progress, photos and videos.
So? Are you all up to watching me build a real proper laser system?
time to scope ebay for parts. eBays good for buying people’s unwanted junk.
So please keep watching this space