This is my fourth post, and will be for those who want to get their hand dirty with electronics and build their own laser scanners. I'll give the 1.2.3 on it, but it'll involve a soldering iron, a decent (100mw+) laser, and lots of tinkering. The gizmo will include:
Full schematic available to everyone
Full source (aka change the code to suit your needs)
Runs on basic, easy to program
Full calibration - set the unit up from the LCD to suit your servo's and laser head
Power adjustment of laser to suit venues
Control of TTL lasers
LCD screen - either locally or remotly mounted with controls
Beat trigger
NVram so it doesn't need to be force fed its code every time its powered up
Cheap servo's - $10 us on fleabay
Simple electronics - a monkey with a blowtorch could build it!
The circuitry is basically a simple DAC linked to a LCDX (details soon) board that has 16 I/O's, a keypad input and a uC - and it programs in basic - remember the commodore 64? easy to learn and hard to forget.
Total outlay (less enclosure parts) should be ~$100 less laser, for automated music controlled (or auto, manual) beam effects including:
Circle
Square
Triangle
Liquid Sky
Scatter beam
Diamond
Rotating square/triangle
Bouncing Sky
Poloran scanner (borg from star trek Voyager)
Cant go on - still need to finish the rest of the sequences and run them thru the simulator.
Need input for the input - Shall we have a keypad or buttons left of and right of the 4 lines on the 4x20 display? (and a big red execute button below)?
Full schematic available to everyone
Full source (aka change the code to suit your needs)
Runs on basic, easy to program
Full calibration - set the unit up from the LCD to suit your servo's and laser head
Power adjustment of laser to suit venues
Control of TTL lasers
LCD screen - either locally or remotly mounted with controls
Beat trigger
NVram so it doesn't need to be force fed its code every time its powered up
Cheap servo's - $10 us on fleabay
Simple electronics - a monkey with a blowtorch could build it!
The circuitry is basically a simple DAC linked to a LCDX (details soon) board that has 16 I/O's, a keypad input and a uC - and it programs in basic - remember the commodore 64? easy to learn and hard to forget.
Total outlay (less enclosure parts) should be ~$100 less laser, for automated music controlled (or auto, manual) beam effects including:
Circle
Square
Triangle
Liquid Sky
Scatter beam
Diamond
Rotating square/triangle
Bouncing Sky
Poloran scanner (borg from star trek Voyager)
Cant go on - still need to finish the rest of the sequences and run them thru the simulator.
Need input for the input - Shall we have a keypad or buttons left of and right of the 4 lines on the 4x20 display? (and a big red execute button below)?