Spirogram goes 3D!

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[smiley=dankk2.gif] Just imagine that on a foggy night high up on a pole out on a field... more then breathtaking.

Oh yea! I bet that if you could get some powerfull lasers like 400-500mW and some bigger motors and put it on a tall pole, people would think that an alien spaceship is landing ;D

 

[FireMyLaser]

Let's go nuts: RGB >1w ;D

 

[polop]

what type of motors were you using. and with all those spinning parts it must be dificult to get the power to the leds.

btw it is soooo cool.

 

[FireMyLaser]

Just some standard DC motors. Yes, to power the leds and top motor was a challenge but I made it and it works great

 

[FireMyLaser]

I'll added one more vid with only the green led. This shows more clearly some of the patterns that the laser will make.

 

[hawks1282]

That's amazing, I think it would sell on thinkgeek (I'd buy one). You could probably set up a Pic microprocessor and a stepper motor to control it and draw images in the air.

 

[FireMyLaser]

The problem is that i can't find some small stepper motors with long driveshafts :-/ I have a bunch of those that you find in cd/dvd rails but the shaft kinda "collapse" when i take them out   Life's tuff sometimes  :

 

[lamborgini8]

Are you planning on putting red, green and blue lasers in there when you make the laser version?

 

[FireMyLaser]

Probably not full colour, the blue ones is too expensive. It will be a green one at ~100-200mw perhaps.