Start of the 5Watt project

[rfourt]

Ok i have now finally recived much of the stuff to start building the projector. Still some gears to be ordered but the main stuff is here.

What i will build is a kind a big box out of aluminium profiles and a big Beamtable ontop. (see 3D drawing below)

The projector will consist of:

12x 100-120mW 405nm PHR diodes
2 x 800mW 650nm LionTech Modules
1 x 2100mW 532nm LasherShowParts Module

15 x Actuators
20+ Beam/optic holders/mounts
2 x Laserworld 50.000kps Scanners (4 galvo´s)
1 x 17" Elo TouchScreen
1 x 3.2Ghz Computer built in
1 x Belkin G535 Wireless router
20x 120mm Cooling fans

The output will probably not be excactly 5Watt as i will have to lower the green and red to be combined with the Blue-Rays to achive white. But if this work i will defenetly buy some more PHR-Diodes.

The computer will be built in and pre configured to autostart the software i will run (not bought yet and still thinking but it will probably be FB3) And then the wireless router will give the computer an Static IP-adress and i then can connect thru "Remote Desktop" thru 54Gbs speed instead of using alot of ILDA cable from and to the projector box.

I will post pictures here on the progress wich will probably be almoust everyday.

Let me know what you guys think and so on.

Also would like to give out some big THANK YOU to alot of ppl here as this would have never been possible without some of you helpfull ppl here. Its been a year since i started planing, gathering and buying stuff for this project and now finally i have made the first step in actually starting the built.

Thnx.
Lets Get Ready To Rumble!

/Rickard

The profiles that will be used to build the chassi.


The corners to connect the profiles


Connected


The chassi


Clooser view


The bottom plate and shelf that will house the motherboard, PSU and "drivers for the scanners etc.


The 21mm Alu plate, making drilling guide holes preparing for drilling. 600holes.. JIsses





The guide holes are ready. phew. took some time,, ill save the actuall drilling and Tapping for a sunny day. soon


The 17" Elo TouchScreen monitor and the homemade stand.


The monitor in place.






The Asus Motherboard is in place, 2GB ram, 3.2ghz Proc, 160GB Raport WD disk.






Tomorrow i will start making the mounts and cooling bars for the PHR-diodes and gonna start making the calculations for the Pararell connections for the 12 Diodes so i know wich resistors to use.

Stay Tuned

And ones again. THANK YOU!

Regards
/Rickard




The 3D drawings:

[Insanity]

Hey Rikard,

That's gonna be a beast of a machine... Almost big enough to live in...

Good tip from an old hand...

Be careful how you drill that plate... You should drill it in an even fashion, so across the diagonals rather than middle out or edge in... This way you relieve the stresses in the metal evenly, otherwise you might find the plate buckling...

And keep the pictures coming, this looks like a serious bit of kit...

Mark

[andy_con]

dont take this the wrong way but the most random powers of lasers ive ever seen!!!

12x 100-120mW 405nm PHR diodes
2 x 800mW 650nm LionTech Modules
1 x 2100mW 532nm LasherShowParts Module

take the 2100mw 532nm down to 1watt, lose the 405nm's and spend the money on two 473nm modules.

but in general nice project and look forward to seeing more pics as you go along

[Lasernerd]

WoW!

[LesioQ]

To my eye the way You're going the beam to scanning setup is problematic. You need to add one or two mirrors to reach galvos assy at some right angle like from bottom or ....
Piotr.K

[allthatwhichis]

Very ambitous but very nice goal you have set for your self. I have thought of the in projector PC idea but have not been able to plan it out. There is another user who is going to add a mini itx Pc tohis projector but I think you got your's in first. Definatly keep the pictures coming.

[dar303]

Impressive undertaking, I wish you good luck! Maybe I could come over and see it in real life when you have put it together some more?

What kind of actuators did you use and where did you find them?

Anyway, keep the pictures coming!


(vilket monster!!!

[danielbriggs]

The projector will consist of:

12x 100-120mW 405nm PHR diodes
2 x 800mW 650nm LionTech Modules
1 x 2100mW 532nm LasherShowParts Module

15 x Actuators
20+ Beam/optic holders/mounts
2 x Laserworld 50.000kps Scanners (4 galvo´s)
1 x 17" Elo TouchScreen
1 x 3.2Ghz Computer built in
1 x Belkin G535 Wireless router
20x 120mm Cooling fans

You crazy genius!
There is one thing you've missed off... the 4-slice toaster

On a technical note: If you are going to put side panels on, I assume you're going to mount the WiFi antenna on the outside of the case. As I reckon the box will act as a Faraday cage (unless you keep it 'skeleton style').
Personally I'd stick a trusty RJ45 ethernet port somewhere on the side. You can't beat a good old cable

But that is some SUPER MEGA ace work
V. Nice CAD by the way!

Dan

[rfourt]

Hey Rikard,

That's gonna be a beast of a machine... Almost big enough to live in...

Good tip from an old hand...

Be careful how you drill that plate... You should drill it in an even fashion, so across the diagonals rather than middle out or edge in... This way you relieve the stresses in the metal evenly, otherwise you might find the plate buckling...

And keep the pictures coming, this looks like a serious bit of kit...

Mark

Hey Mark!

Thank you for the tip. Will think of that. yea we have some industrial drills at my work so im going to try and fit the plate in there and drill the holes.

dont take this the wrong way but the most random powers of lasers ive ever seen!!!

12x 100-120mW 405nm PHR diodes
2 x 800mW 650nm LionTech Modules
1 x 2100mW 532nm LasherShowParts Module

take the 2100mw 532nm down to 1watt, lose the 405nm's and spend the money on two 473nm modules.

but in general nice project and look forward to seeing more pics as you go along

No problem Andy.
Yea i was thinking of that to but then i saw some post about Pangolin software that you can set the amount of power to the laser thru the software for different shows/animations/frames? dont know if this is correct, but in that case i will ofc power it down to be compared to the other diodes power to achive a nice white.

But when its time for Beamshow i will never back down from 2.1W to 1W

Bridge has given me an awsome price on Blue and i will defenatly go for the 473nm sometime in a near future but the cost of the blue´s is to much right now compared to the power i can get with the PHR 405nm diodes. Its not the correct blue but its a really good substitute. Have combined 4 of them for a test and got out aprox 500mW of really nice bluish color.

To my eye the way You're going the beam to scanning setup is problematic. You need to add one or two mirrors to reach galvos assy at some right angle like from bottom or ....
Piotr.K

Yes the beam come from under. the 3D drawing above is just to show the box and the planing but the galvos/scanners will be placed clooser to the first beam so it will only bounce on 2mirrors and 1 Actuatormirror.

Very ambitous but very nice goal you have set for your self. I have thought of the in projector PC idea but have not been able to plan it out. There is another user who is going to add a mini itx Pc tohis projector but I think you got your's in first. Definatly keep the pictures coming.

Yea i think its a really easy and actually quite cheap as you dont have to go for a monster setup computer. and the main thing can skip the huge and heavy roll of 100meter of ILDA cable. Dont really like AMD processors but for this project it will suit just fine.

Impressive undertaking, I wish you good luck! Maybe I could come over and see it in real life when you have put it together some more?

What kind of actuators did you use and where did you find them?

Anyway, keep the pictures coming!


(vilket monster!!!

Hehe, sure thing , although i think we swedish ppl should put toghether a meeting as every other country seems to have one. Dosnt have to be so planed like the others but it would be fun.

The actuators are bought from MediaLas, but thinking to buy some of these here..https://www.goldmine-elec-products.c....asp?dept=1178
just dont know wich one that will work just yet and actually how to controll them, with DMX i think but does DMX out out enough power to run them?

The solenoid or actuator dosnt have to be rotary it can be linear also. just a litle different setup is needed.

You crazy genius!
There is one thing you've missed off... the 4-slice toaster

On a technical note: If you are going to put side panels on, I assume you're going to mount the WiFi antenna on the outside of the case. As I reckon the box will act as a Faraday cage (unless you keep it 'skeleton style').
Personally I'd stick a trusty RJ45 ethernet port somewhere on the side. You can't beat a good old cable

But that is some SUPER MEGA ace work
V. Nice CAD by the way!

Dan

Hehe thank you. Geniuos i dont know but crazy i concour. :P

Yea the antena will be mounted on the outside of the box.

Yea under the monitor i will have some frontpanel stuff such as 2x RJ45 connections, 2x USB, MicIn, LineIn, LineOut, DVD burner, and one of the Frontpanel Fan monitors (see attached picture) can monitor 5 different heatsources and see fan sped etc. etc.

More pics tomorrow.

cheers.

[oliverst14@hotmail.com]

all i can say is wow

i would love this to be mine

do u mind telling me how much this is going to cost?

cheers mate

ollie