RGB Laser

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Last month we had the pleasure of bringing you [FireMyLaser’s] green laser spirograph. Just green is great for a while, but why not add red and blue for a full spectrum of color! [c4r0] steps in at this point to bring us his red green blue laser.

(Editor’s note: the old forum doesn’t seem to exist in 2023, but the project moved here. Thanks, [Rolson]!)

He dug around inside Blu-ray players and DVD drives until he had a collection of lasers, refractors, and other filters that fit his needs. With some careful toothpick alignment and glue, his setup was complete.

But then he went further by modified his galvo scanner to accept the RGB laser; requiring a custom circuit board and new software, both available on his site. The original is in Polish, but Google does a decent translation. Check after the jump for a video.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma29VCX2T8g%5D

Last month we had the pleasure of bringing you [FireMyLaser’s] green laser spirograph. Just green is great for a while, but why not add red and blue for a full spectrum of color! [c4r0] steps in this point to bring us his red green blue laser. He dug around inside Blu-ray players and DVD drives until he had a collection of lasers, retractors, and other filters that fit his needs. With some careful toothpick alignment and glue, his setup was complete.

But then he went further by modified his galvo scanner to accept the RGB laser; requiring a custom circuit board and new software, both available on his site. The original is in Polish, but Google does a decent translation.

22 thoughts on “RGB Laser

  1. M4CGYV3R:
    “Automatyczny tłumacz ssie”. You can add “pałkę” at the end to make it more visual ;]

    peter:
    and if you would actually click on that flag you would see “here’s no English translation of this article yet. Click HERE to see the Polish version translated to English by Google.” :D

  2. Holy crap, you know, if you wanted to go really nuts you could make your scanner a bit more precise and create your own laser raster scanner (ie. a scanning lazer TV). That would be really really awesome, but I think the technical challenges might be too great.

    Well done though.

  3. @gripen40k

    hack a DMD from a DLP projector in there!! that’s how to make the raster scanner… just forgo the colour wheel and pulse the lasers to make RGB :) i think that’s what those laservue TV guys did, and how i think the projectors coca-cola uses work

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