Project Stuka - The "Jolly Green Poly Slab"
DISCLAIMER -
This is NOT, nor is it meant to be, an audience-safe projector - no shutter, kill switch, etc....in fact, there's NO CASE, and the Poly 20 wheel is uses DOES have some interesting but unwanted secondary beams !
This was strictly a Friday-night thrown together "quickie" to find out if it could be done, with one audience member in attendance during the actual use of the beast - me! :)
The "Jolly Green Poly Slab" consists of my 1 watt LaserWave 532nm "Jolly Green" laser, three small bounce mirrors, the Poly-20 wheel attached to a model airplane servo, 2 small DMX boards to control the servo positioning and laser modulation, required power supplies, and some poster board to act as "beam masks" (:o), all attached (wood screws, zip ties, and duct tape!) to a spare 12" x 24" shelf "slab" - hence the name!
I control it using the DMX capabilities of my Pangolin QM2000.NET, which works QUITE well once you spend a little time with the DMX frame system - plus, the QM_DMX console that is "hidden" in the LD2000 directory can be used like a software-based DMX console!
Conceptially, it helped me prove a few things:
1. A 1 watt laser shooting through sectors of a Poly-20 wheel looks REALLY cool in haze-filled garage! :)
2. The Poly-20 servo solution actually works- reliably & repeatedly!
I feel a "Star Wars" show mod in the future! :p
3. If you're using a Poly-20 wheel, you'd better have plenty of box around it to catch the stray beams! :eek:
Anyway, here's a few photos of the "experiment", shot in my garage with my ColorSplash Jr LED DMX lights adding some color. (click image to see full-size picture).
More in the gallery if anyone is interested...
http://www.photonlexicon.com/gallery...Disclaimer.JPG http://www.photonlexicon.com/gallery...+the+scrim.JPG http://www.photonlexicon.com/gallery...mp_+LED_s+.JPG http://www.photonlexicon.com/gallery...b_overview.JPG http://www.photonlexicon.com/gallery...lab_active.JPG http://www.photonlexicon.com/gallery...amp_+Red+1.JPG http://www.photonlexicon.com/gallery...amp_+Red+2.JPG http://www.photonlexicon.com/gallery...amp_+Red+3.JPG
Yeah, it was cool...:cool:
http://www.photonlexicon.com/gallery...amp_+Red+4.JPG
