I've been soldering and hot glueing like a crazy b!tch with this thing! It first started as a LED project, then I made one for my X-125, and now I have one for my Aries-200. I don't know if it has any real potential, some people might have problems with laser beams going EVERYWHERE... but you decide. I used: two DC-motors, two PWM-dimmers, HDD-platters for mirrors and a bunch of vcr-scrap and other junk. The alignment was a pita and my fingers are burnt but it was worth it.














YouTube - 360° Laser Spirograph



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It's ghetto allright.









There's a high and low gear, but unfortunately it spins itself out of control with the high gear.

















I've looked for attention for this before but no one listens or share interest with it so that's why I posted. I guess it's just something 'interesting' to watch.

Wow, now that is unique... Not sure I'd fire it up myself without eye protection but certainly very cool effects.

Yeah, I looked through the camera, but at a distance of >2m I believe it's safe. It is VERY important not to turn the laser on or off without one of the motors is spinning. You never know where the beam will be when it stops.

Way Cool you have hit the grass roots of inventing here with all the solder and hot glue CUDOS dude ! that ranks right up there at the top of the chart opereates realy cool too would love to see other colors in ther and I just bet that won't be to far off.
Keep inventing !!! always learn !!!

Peace All Pyro...

Wow thanks. I can try to point the RGV in there but I think the beam is too fat.

Nice job FML, I thought I had seen it before but worth another look!

Regards rog8811

Look good ..... had a similar idea, times ago, but with a completely different principle (mine was a normal 2 motors spiro, with a rotating mirror that was rolling slowly the out around, drawing the beam all around the room in slow cycle, you instead put one motor on the rolling castle, and apparently used a videorecorder head assembly with a tube as axis for pass the beam, right ? ..... good idea )

Wondering about the effect if you put also the second motor on the rolling castle

Anyway, i suggest you low power ..... no safety corners, with that assembly

Naah ..... it looks like some of my experiments ..... i see nothing strange, in his assemblies.

Uh, being sincere, also his work table, looks a bit like mine ..... the only difference, is that he have less material on it, and it's more ordinate

You have problems with my work table? Mine's the BEST!

^ no , i haven't problems at all ..... i feel myself at home, there

I just said that your table is more ordinate than mine

Yeah ok lol.

VERY NICE! i wouldnt worry about any kind of "ghetto"ness... 90-95% of DIY projects/prototypes are just peiced together from what people have.(you should have seen a few of mine...) usually the only time ive EVER seen a really clean looking project is from someone who has machining tools. either way +rep for ingenuity and originality.

Thank you very much, appreciated!

The effect at 2:00 in the video where it projected an encompassing ring that ascended to the ceiling was really cool.

Very cool spiro btw, i've never seen anything like this before

oh wow that thing is intense! You might add some fog to the room and post another video if I may suggest anything...

Amazing! I love it.

Very interesting concept and impressive video.

Add some fog, or take it out on a foggy night, because that has to look amazing.

Man thats insane.......I love it, it has a artistic static flair to it. You really need to squeeze your RGV beam in there.

As always, inspiring.

Chuck

I tried it with the RGV, but too much of the beam was blocked for the camera to capture the effect. I'd love to try this outside with fog, and when it happens I will post it!

^ Burning some buildings around, can be a good substitute for the lack of fog ..... uh, no, wait, i just realized that it's a bit illegal ..... nevermind.

(J/K )

Really nice build!! I like how it can do liquid skies, time tunnels, and spiros. Great job!

That's awesome.. ever heard of Rube Goldberg?

That is awsome.

just to through an idea into the mix how about a globe around that beast made of diffraction grating films and other items like that.

Nice work,

-SightFX

Freaking AWESOME concept.

I was gonna /r/ some smoke but I finished watching the video.


I don't know why you can't get attention to this piece of artwork.

What if you placed it in a spherical container that attenuated the laser output (like that one you placed on top, just spherical and with more attenuation) to just see the dot/line on the surface of the sphere? If it was transparent you could also fill it with smoke and make some really, REALLY cool effects.


Also, you have invented the full 360° security barrier !





















Also, the game.

^ It can be easily done ..... here, at least, light and electric shops sells as spare parts those opaline balls that are used for the garden lamps ..... are usually 30 and 45 cm or similar in diameter, and have a base aperture of 9 / 10 cm, you can find them both opaline white and just "sanded" glass ..... putting it inside, with the mini motor mirror in the center, can give you a beautiful party lamp ..... especially using rgb beam slowly changing colors (or, also better, changing colors drived from music ..... have to study a circuit that can drive each color based on the frequencies, but must be easy ) ..... and, maybe, also the motors continuously changing speeds from min to max, in slow waves ..... just one of the ways in which it can be used, heheh

Imagine it (or a pair of them) inside a 45cm sanded glass, near the dj table