CD DiffractiSpiro!

Hey!

Well, I was bored over the weekends so I started looking around for something interesting to do.

Heres what I came up with.



I remembered that CD's reflect 8 or so dots when you shine a laser at them so I broke a CD into pieces and stuck it onto a fan using Blu-tak since I wanted the fan for another project.

When connected to a 12v power converter (ac/dc converter) and placed on a shirt or something of the sort to stop vibrations it will display circles all around your room. You can even add different colours for cooler effects

Da pics:























Have fun

Cheers.

Wow nice idea!, gonna try it now!

Post back with some pics once your done

Yeah, that's actually really cool... I may use those instead of FS mirrors for the triple-motor spiro I want to do....

Pretty cool...

I bet it would make some awesome patterns if you used two motors!

But, please, tell me where you managed to acquire a laser that emits CD's :na:
"I remembered that CD's reflect 8 or so dots when you shine a CD at them so I broke a CD into pieces"

very cool, thanks for sharing! :beer:

Dangerous reflections there.

Wolfman29 said:

Yeah, that's actually really cool... I may use those instead of FS mirrors for the triple-motor spiro I want to do....

Click to expand...

Cool, can't wait to see it

benmwv said:

Pretty cool...

I bet it would make some awesome patterns if you used two motors!

But, please, tell me where you managed to acquire a laser that emits CD's :na:
"I remembered that CD's reflect 8 or so dots when you shine a CD at them so I broke a CD into pieces"

Click to expand...

I would tell you but then I would have to kill you :beer:

danefex said:

very cool, thanks for sharing! :beer:

Click to expand...

:beer:

Silvershot said:

Dangerous reflections there.

Click to expand...

Lol Thats what safety goggles and camera's are for

I exchanged the piece of CD with a FS mirror and I got some cool tunnel effects

I even got some orange when mixing R + G on the spiro

Teh pics: