Having retired from paid work a little over a year ago I've been occupying my time with various projects and assorted loose ends.

One of the things I've been doing is resurrecting my various laser projects. I've been experimenting, designing, prototyping and doing a lot of documenting on it all.

Several years ago I posted about a simulator program I'd been working on, and then shelved it due to work constraints, etc. I've since dusted it off and completely overhauled the user interface and refactored all the code.

I had plans for doing things like:

* Providing presets.
* Adding a mechanism for creating sequences of images/scenes with the ability to play them based on time/time code and keyboard triggers.
* Translating the image data points into audio output that could be interfaced to scanners.
* Getting a multi-output USB audio interface to handle the X-Y image feed and RGB color signals.

In fact, I recently (like, in the past few days) made an attempt towards taking the image coordinate points and using them to create audio samples to feed an audio interface just to see what would happen. It is making noise. A lot of noise. I tried pumping it into a couple of scanners but I can see I still have some work to do. But as I'm also working on other things I'm taking some time off from this software diversion.

I just put up a small website, laserocitors, where I plan on capturing information, the first of which is a link to a public github repository into which I've placed all the source code for this simulator program.

The program is a windows WPF application using C# and MVVM techniques, built using Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition.

Any interest in this?