Laserman532 - Have Lasers...Will Travel!!! - GO MOBILE!

Here is a fun little project for you guys. " Hey, I have a great idea...lets just build it all into a truck!" How many of you have thought about that? This is how we had to do it with ION LASERS...You guys that use DPSS Systems could build it into a YUGO!

1-5 watt argon laser LEXEL Air Cooled
1-2 watt krypton laser LEXEL Air Cooled
2-Sets of XYZ scanner sets with independent color modulation & control
1-250 watt carver amp W/ Peavy speakers
1-8 track reel to reel FM mod/demod taped lasershow playback system

Lasers and projector had a smooth ride on a custom shock absorber system

Truck towed a 40 KW silent block generator

Couch, refrigerator, microwave, tv. Custom paint job...

Ball park price 100K$

Look on peoples faces when you pulled up???? PRICELESS!!!

Does "in the back of a P/U truck " count with 3 -12v car batteries and inverters?

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Originally Posted by MechEng3

Does "in the back of a P/U truck " count with 3 -12v car batteries and inverters?

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LOL YEP if its mobile...it counts!!! Lets see some pics!!!

Hehe... I really enjoy your posts. That thing looks pretty harmless... but before you know it, it will turn the whole parking lot into a german disco! :p

I actually thought about vehicle mounting a laser scanning systems to show graphics on various buildings around the town. How about a message to the people on a wall of the royal castle in central Stockholm? Though it might upset some, especially the armed guards... I can see things go really bad if they think someone is target painting the building. :D

Tried using yours on the white house? Pentagon?

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Originally Posted by tocket

Hehe... I really enjoy your posts. That thing looks pretty harmless... but before you know it, it will turn the whole parking lot into a german disco! :p

I actually thought about vehicle mounting a laser scanning systems to show graphics on various buildings around the town. How about a message to the people on a wall of the royal castle in central Stockholm? Though it might upset some, especially the armed guards... I can see things go really bad if they think someone is target painting the building. :D

Tried using yours on the white house? Pentagon?

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Sounds like these guys are doing what you want to do...LASER GRAFITTI!!! THE NEW RAGE when you leave the German discos! Now it is the time on Sprockets in which we dance!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isfrCIhQ5HE

They use a video projector though! That's cheating. Cool idea though, but I'm not sure how visible it will be unless you have a really bright projector.

Ha! Thats neat, until someone steals the truck or it gets wrecked. Do you have pics of the inside? When you say the lexels are air cooled, do you mean the re-circulators are air cooled?

Saw a mobile "truck-based" rig from Science Faction Corp. out of New York years ago on a nationwide tour promoting AT&T and the history of telephony...multiple ion lasers - it was pretty cool.

I always thought that a laser billboard had potential. Probably not doable in this day and age - the sign permit requirements here in Houston outlawed anything like that some years ago, including projected images above a given height on buildings. I remember a company located in Downtown Houston that wanted to have their logo projected at the top of their building (Continental, if memory serves me)....nope.

I believe that the concern was that people would wreck their cars trying to watch any moving images.

That laser graffiti video is pretty cool. The program they use to do that is open source, or at least open to the public, cant remember which. You need a particular graphics card to do it.

Other than that it can be pretty easily re-created (if you have a projector that is).

-Max

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Originally Posted by DZ

Ha! Thats neat, until someone steals the truck or it gets wrecked. Do you have pics of the inside? When you say the lexels are air cooled, do you mean the re-circulators are air cooled?

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I have pics of the inside somewhere, if i find em ill post em. Yes the lexels were water re circulators. I was only barely impressed with that design. The argon would barely crack 4 watts and the Krypton would barely crack 1.2 watts. We had the vent on the other side of truck and sucked fresh air in with the back door cracked open. They were OK for this application.

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Originally Posted by mliptack

That laser graffiti video is pretty cool. The program they use to do that is open source, or at least open to the public, cant remember which. You need a particular graphics card to do it.

Other than that it can be pretty easily re-created (if you have a projector that is).

-Max

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I think if you surf their website they tell you exactly how do do it...I almost did it..........Exactly what i need........another useless project that cost me a fortune, eats up all of my time and makes absolutely NO MONEY...

here is a short clip we made for a marketing firm that wanted laser tag for a promo thing
i don't know about Texas but in nyc no one bothers you with video projectors we do guerilla projections all the time you can even see in the video that the nypd not only don't care but stopped to play with the laser tag setup

http://www.litstudios.com/interference

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VJ AIWAZ

What type of laser did you use though? The projects website said they used a 50mw since the 5mw wasn't enough. But then having a 50mw in public would require a variance.

-Max

it was just a 5mw a webcam/laptop and a 4000ansi projector
but when we do stuff like this for clients we would rent(i own the 4k) a 10000ansi projector

although we may be buying a 15000ansi next month for a job

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VJ AIWAZ

The company I work for just bought 4 of the Barco 10Ks! And I must admit they're awesome :)

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Originally Posted by mliptack

What type of laser did you use though? The projects website said they used a 50mw since the 5mw wasn't enough.

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You never did answer my question :)

just a 5mw red laser pen it came in a kit

we just bought this kit to make that demo to get the job when we go live my partner is going to write the code to do this
what that gives us is one a custom gui with a color pallet to chose from with what ever clients logo
and most importantly it gives us the ability to use a real camera(like our hdv cam) because the kit is locked to the webcam (we tried to hack it even with the help of keytek but it didnt work out )

and we tried the grl software and it wasnt as good as this kit




http://www.magictouch.com/ViewTouch.html

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Originally Posted by VJ AIWAZ

http://www.magictouch.com/ViewTouch.html

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Hey John - wow - so I guess the GRL wasn't as 'original' as they posture? - or did this kit come out 'post-GRL'?

HEY WAIT A MINUTE - THIS IS NOT LASERS!!! :D

Pm-me...:cool:

- J

I decided to copy and paste my original post regarding laser grafitti. I find it about as useless as tits on a broom. (actually i find tits on a broom more enjoyable):D

Here is what I said...

I almost did it..........Exactly what i need........another useless project that cost me a fortune, eats up all of my time and makes absolutely NO MONEY...

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Originally Posted by Laserman532

I find it about as useless as tits on a broom. (actually i find tits on a broom more enjoyable)

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AMEN!...now can we please get back to our 'regularly scheduled program', here? :D (...uh, that would be more bitchin' laser pix, please, Kap'n..:cool:)

Here's one for starters (not particularly impressive, but shot out of a TRUCK anyway...:D)

- J

(and your truck was cooler Pat ;))

Hopefully laservans will be as welcome as laser trucks :)

Heres my little contribution , 500mW built into Motorway camera housing mounted on top of van , motorway housing was waterproof , so was all weather proof.
Inside had tables lounge chairs and even cooking stove ........ it was great fun at the time but never did make any money out of it ... enjoyed doing the freebies though ....jeex we are not all in it for the money ! but for the love of the light .....sadly vans now history as it was unrelaible but as i said i got some great memories out of it !

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Originally Posted by Lasermad

Hopefully laservans will be as welcome as laser trucks :)

Heres my little contribution , 500mW built into Motorway camera housing mounted on top of van , motorway housing was waterproof , so was all weather proof.
Inside had tables lounge chairs and even cooking stove ........ it was great fun at the time but never did make any money out of it ... enjoyed doing the freebies though ....jeex we are not all in it for the money ! but for the love of the light .....sadly vans now history as it was unrelaible but as i said i got some great memories out of it !

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very cool...you know what they say..."well if it isnt scottish...ITS CRAP!!!" (saturday night live skit) Did you ever drive down the road while it was running?

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Originally Posted by Laserman532

you know what they say..."well if it isnt scottish...ITS CRAP!!!"

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