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.
That’s pretty neat. Seems like a lot of work to save not much money.
How do you say “Translated articles suck” in Polish?
at home Pink Floyd laser light shows here I come!
did you realise that there is an english flag on the right side of c4r0’s homepage and no google translation is necessary?
If i saw that at the dance party i just paised a hefty price to go to. I would have been happy to have just seen that. Market it in a small counrty like New Zealand to gain ground. It will take off.
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
My project is on hackaday, my project is on hackaday!!! ^^ AWSOME :D
~peter
There’s an english flag indeed, but click it when viewing RGB laser article and see what happens ;)
This is amazing. I want one. :-)
Łysy w internecie :D jestes sławny :D gratulacje C4R0 is the best you know
PS POZDRAWIAM POLSKIE SIATKARKI, w szczegolnosci PANIA SKOWROŃSKĄ.
If you want a legit translation it’s like this:
Przetłumaczone artykuły są hujowe.
Cool shit though
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.
Dude, now all we have to add is a tractor beam, and we can finally have a real “ROYAL RAINBOW”
@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
put some PWM ‘Pulse Width Modulation’ in there to give you an even wider range of colors.
awesome looking eye candy project – thanks for sharing it!
Hey you might be right about the DLP projector thing, that would probably work! That would make this project super expensive though, projectors are still pretty pricey.
looks beautiful, but how would you protect your eyes from it?
star wars holograms?
c4r0-
Beautiful! Added points for the wood/metal project box.
so how far away is it from being able to project movies?
needs a polygon mirror to create lines then color tv is only a matter of y
I translated this stuff to English already:
http://c4r0.skrzynka.org/_hv/index.php?page=lasers/RGB&lang=1
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