"I was just about to put in a order on the laser dock dongle but saw the price tag now, $299 made it loose a lot of it's competitiveness. Even if their software still could be a lot of fun playing around with. So what is the options?"
Range is based on price only not saying anything about the function or quality.
In the low range (> ~$100):
LaserShark
- USB
- 12 bit X and Y
- 2 x 12 bit color channels
- 1 x TTL color channel
- Full resolution up to 64Kpps
- LPC1343 Microcontroller running at 72Mhz
- Open source
Helios
- USB
- 12 bit X and Y
- 4 x 8 bit color channels (RGB + I)
- Max sampling rate 65535 pps
- ATSAM4S2B ARM microcontroller, 112MHz and 64KB RAM
- OLSC compatible
- Open source
Laserboy
- USB
- 16 bit X and Y
- 3 x 16 bit color channels
- Open source
Medium range (~$100 - ~$400):
RIYA
- USB
- 12 bit X and Y
- 4 x 8 bit color channels
Laserdock
- USB
- 12 bit X and Y
- 3 x 12 bit color channels
- Speed up to 60Kpps
- 32bit ARM processor 72MHz (LPC1343?)
Ether Dream (Ether Dream 2?)
- 100M Ethernet
- 12 bit X and Y
- 6 x 12 bit color channels
- Max sampling rate 100Kpps
- Playback of ILDA and WAV files from SD card at up to 60kpp (as well as over network)
Moncha LITE
- 100M Ethernet
- 12 bit X and Y
- 4 x 8 bit color channels
- Max sampling rate 40Kpps
- Playback from SD card
- ArtNet
Upper rage (~$400 <)
Moncha GO
- 100M Ethernet
- 12 bit X and Y
- 4 x 8 bit color channels
- Max sampling rate 40Kpps
- Playback from SD card
- ArtNet
- LEGO compatible
FB3QS
- USB
- 6 color channels
- Max sampling rate 120Kpps
- Quickshow included
FB4 Standard
- Ethernet
- 6 color channels
- Max sampling rate 120Kpps
- Standalone SD card memory
- ArtNet
- Quickshow included
I have probably missed a lot but these are those that comes to mind...