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Day: March 11, 2008

Laser-writing Via Vnc

March 11, 2008 by Will O'Brien 8 Comments


Writing with a laser pointer has been done, but [Chris]’s roll your own version feeds the data the display pc using VNC. He’s got some speed issues, but I’m giving him points for most original use for remote desktop software.

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