Hey Absolom, thanks for the comments!
At the present point in time, we're not selling it as a component. The reason is because when you expand the divergence, you can see the "structure" of the beam. If the beam doesn't start its life out looking perfect, then, well, there could be "questions"...
For example, when Pieterjan posted a video of a show he did, some people complained about separation of the red. See this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCETY3VbR2Y
I mean, instead of saying "HEY MAN THAT'S AN AMAZING SHOW" they say "hey, what's that separation of the reds". They then falsely jump to a conclusion that it's because of Beam Brush... It isn't! In Pieterjan's case it's because his projector has a laser module made 5 years ago, not made specifically for Beam Brush, and was made in such a way to optimize size, space and cost at the expense of something that is completely invisible -- invisible that is unless you expand the beam!
So selling it as a component to a variety of people, who would retrofit into their variety of projectors, and wind up having a variety of results, and would then make a variety of forum posts, well, I hope you see where all of this is headed. Basically Pangolin would look like idiots for developing such a bad system. Know what I mean?
What would be better is to have 100% consistent and expected results, that are always beautiful. Then, instead of complaining about the problems, people will only look at the beauty. At least that's the plan ;-)
To this end, we are partnering with Kvant who is making complete laser projectors, with laser diode arrays made in such a way that when the beam is expanded with Beam Brush, there aren't any objectionable artifacts. This kind of protects the brand, and at the same time makes it easy for people to get into one of these systems.
We have sent individual prototype systems to individual people -- for example, Pieterjan, David Kumpula, (and soon Mike Dunn and Thomas Avisse), plus we have a handful of systems at Pangolin. But all of these systems were made with parts we actually acquired in 2013 and that sat on the shelf until recently. We had a limited number of parts to build a limited number of prototype systems. For production builds we ship scanners and a few other key components to Kvant, and they machine the rest and build it into their projectors.
So -- bottom line, if you want one of these projectors, call Justin and he'll give you a price for a projector. There is a line of projectors ranging from 3 watts up to 30 watts (I think, something like that).
By the way, we will also soon be releasing a build of BEYOND with Beam Brush and example content so people can play around with it on the preview window and get a feel for what it does and how it works, even without having such a projector.
Bill