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Was thinking of the missing fan too.. I now grabbing a dt40 laser with fan so hope it will work better. Thanks for your answers.

Greg, that looked awesomely good in and of itself. I loved the chopper effect where one end tapers down to black.

On second look, you're obviously correct, Brian. Don't know why I initially thought otherwise, unless it was due to the different colors around the chopped circles. Just now watched Greg's video, which is pretty darn close so far, considering he was only given our verbal guidance. I'm impressed,...

Greg's image isn't colormod. It's just got a ton of chopper & a fixed rotation that wasn't available on the Mark IV that was designed for Laserium I. I don't remember exactly when the 0, 90, 180, 270 rotation was added, but it wasn't part of the Mark 6A either.

Thanks! Looks like they shut their AliExpress store down. I managed to find it - https://www.aliexpress.com/store/5004499 - it has their branding and the store's business license lists the same address, but it's just called "Shop5004499 Store" (AliExpress default name format) and it has no...

Yes, those are the basic cycloids. But, technically speaking, it looks like you're using colormod, where beam chopper should be, probably because of my pictured example. (Hold back on the razzle-dazzle until the climax for maximum impact. Need the lows to make the highs greater. It's visual...

CYGN-A didn't do stable harmonics. Not even after they made aluminum adapters to allow a conductive plastic fine frequency pot to be mounted to the dual 1 mOhm pots. I would generally start with spinning loops - they look good with joystick. There were three kinds of laserist. One type tried to do...

Hello, have you already turned on the FL1000 fiber laser. Do you know what is the voltage in volts that must be applied to the pump laser diodes?

Not sure if this is at all close to what is being described. I find it not easy to settle the CYGN-A into stable harmonics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBxwE7v_CXE

Hmm, I was expecting a bit more interest in this item. Nobody is measuring power anymore or everyone has a powermeter already? It’s a great little tool. :-)

Don't know anything about AliExpress. But yes, OPT is still alive and well: https://www.optlaser.com/

It appears there are many who are quite enamored by this AI "Echo'ed" visual assault, based on the comments on YT. I'll just add that for me: Less is more.

Very cool! As it happens, I remember my routine pretty well, as originally taught to me by Dave Cooper during initial training. Yes, there was a starfield background, with a single cycloid fade in (via beam torquer) that approached the audience (growing in size). The other 3 would follow with...

Echos was mostly joystick and a cycloid development number. it was edited. It started about 15 minutes into the original version with stars, the "radar" beeps revealed points with high speed CM2 for a second - so they looked white "stars" or explosions in random positions via joystick. You start...

I found Echoes on a Laserium I tape. It appears to have been edited out of the show, but left on the reel at the end. The data doesn't do much, just brings up the four channels, centered, which slowly grow in size. All channels are variable cycloid for most of it but then switch to invert spirals...

This seems like a good thing to upload to archive.org so that folks can more easily find it! :)

This has to be the worst Echoes visuals EVER. It proves that A.I. has neither visual talent, emotions, nor soul. At 1st, I concluded that there was no connection between the visual chaos and Echoes, just A.I. generated imagery, with the sound track added afterwards. Then came the later part...

Hi Laserist & Doug, Pleased to meet you, Doug. You sound like a fellow retired Laserium laserist. I was at the London Planetarium '78-80, prior to losing my mind to go freelance. Yes, with your posts, this old thread only just appeared on my 'Lounge" list, as well, while heading to post on the...

KQO was free running.

In that Dark Side number we used swept diamond spirals. My memory of most of our choreography isn't the best (I haven't done a show for 25 years!). However, since I performed Dark Side more than 3000 times, by my estimation, THAT show's choreography remains a bit clearer. I think I performed that...

Ron correctly observed a few posts ago that I haven't proven the KQO works in the 4 channel system yet. This video does that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r09_2HxrQo4 Missing is the effect where it looks like there is a sinusoid imposed on the amplitude of the spiral on the way down. I'm not...

I was able to do this without any issue with an external PCIe x1 to PCI adapter card (computer is Lenovo ThinkCentre M83 i5-4570 Quad 3.20GHz 16GB RAM 256GB running Windows Professional). Here is a link and the reseller is "Trotwei Blue":...

Thanks Adam, great info and write-up. The meter we used was made by United Detector Technology or UTD, Model 40x Opto-Meter. Here are a few photos from my Ebay posting when I sold it about 5 years ago. UDT is now consolidated into this group...

The rules really haven't changed all that much. The collection aperture consideration is still applicable at venues where it would be reasonable for audience members to bring binoculars, such as a large outdoor football stadium, for example. Not so much in a nightclub, however. Regarding the...

I look forward to checking it out.

License has been changed to LGPL. The point of the code is to live on and be available and not be restrictive. If others do great things with it, then all the better. Improvements that were on my mind: - finish Moonbugs - include support all popular DACs (!) That will make more people happy....