So after months and months of toiling, we've almost started...
Some of you may have known I've been poking at building my own
16-bit board from scratch... I've been a long-time pangolin user,
but I don't like where Pangolin is heading with the new "improvements"
in the new QM2000 board... I figured that by the time their system
was able to do what I wanted to do, I'd have to wait a few more
generations.
But after we finished building the prototype of the new 16-bit board
that I unveiled here on PL, we've inadvertently started doing laser shows
again. We'e working with some popular artists here in LA/Hollywood
and I haven't been getting much free time or sleep.
A 2W DPSS based whitelight
The latest being a show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in January...
We'll be bringing 4 - 40W Yags w/ 18k XYZ scanners, 1 - 15W JenLas
white light w/ 2 sets of cambridges, and that 2W white on a cambridge
you see above... All controlled w/ our custom board...
Kiva just finished the PCB design for the new board with some improvements
we though of while running some shows we did earlier this year.
So on Tuesday we sent a small run off to the PCB fab (A&C in Los Angeles,
who btw did an incredible job on the board) who actually got them done
in less than 24 hours!
So without much futher ado...
Yesterday, these boards got dropped off at the assemblers so I'll see
them again on Tuesday, all populated with chips...
Anyways, back to my scheduled programming.