UK Laser meet 3 - confirmation

[Carl B]

Hi Jem

I would be most greatfull if you did bring the hazer as I think it would work better with my laser harp. Too much of a blast from a fog machine can trigger the beam sensors. I personaly think a costant haze would work much better than a fog machine for laser shows any way.

And Rob, I,m glad you mentioned the venue PA system is available for the meets use. I May need some longer audio leads. By any chance do you know what type of input connectors are on the amp or mixing desk?

Carl

[Jem]

Hi Jem

I would be most greatfull if you did bring the hazer as I think it would work better with my laser harp. Too much of a blast from a fog machine can trigger the beam sensors. I personaly think a costant haze would work much better than a fog machine for laser shows any way.

Consider it done

I too like a nice light haze rather than a massive blast of fog. Fog is great for liquid sky effects, but for subtle beams and colours a nice light haze is lovely.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the Harp as that's one of the things on my to do list. I like the look of the one that uses the Nintendo Wii controller to modulate the sound as you move your hand up and down in each beam.

Jem

[Carl B]

Nice on Jem

WRT the harp, the electronics are not as elaberet as the one that uses the Wii mote scensor. It just uses 9 light dependent resistors in the overhead cross bar to switch relays which then triggers a MIDI sender board. It work just as Jarre's dose. Must do a little thread about it one day. I built the Harp as a bit of an electronics challeng for my self.

Thanks again Jem

Carl

[smogthemog]

Look forward to seeing it Carl.

[Jem]

Nice on Jem

WRT the harp, the electronics are not as elaberet as the one that uses the Wii mote scensor. It just uses 9 light dependent resistors in the overhead cross bar to switch relays which then triggers a MIDI sender board. It work just as Jarre's dose. Must do a little thread about it one day. I built the Harp as a bit of an electronics challeng for my self.

Thanks again Jem

Carl

Hey, no worries, glad to be of service

I'm really looking forward to seeing the harp. I have some schematics etc., from Shobley but as yet haven't done anything about it.

Cheers

Jem

[smogthemog]

I hope you are going to use a little multiline gasser for the harp Jem - now that would be COOL I have a linear defraction grating here that would give you a nice line of pretty colours

[soforene]

A multi-coloured Laser Harp !?!

Even Jarre hasn't done that.

[Jem]

I hope you are going to use a little multiline gasser for the harp Jem - now that would be COOL I have a linear defraction grating here that would give you a nice line of pretty colours

Hi Jim

I think initially i'l be using a 'spare' Laserwave 300mw 532nm. It's one of the small footprint ones. I want to try and reduce everything down into as small box as possible. Also, I want to build one with 'infinate' beams, or in other words without any beam termination sensors.

Perhaps when I get that all working i'll look at using 'gas' power

Thanks for the offer on the diffraction grating, that would probably look cool, but i'm not sure it would work. I intend to use a scaneco20 galvo (also sat on my bench as a 'spare') for producing the beams.

Also looking at turning the beam colours from green to red as you stick your hand in the beam and also changing the colours through orange/yellow as the hand is moved up and down in the beam andthe sound is modulated - Or is that just in my dreams

I seem to be accumulating quite a lot of 'spare' parts

Jem

[Jem]

It's been a while since we had a list of who's likely to attend the meet and we're only just over a week away. Here's the last list that Andy_Con put together, do we have anyone to add?

fluff
Andy_con +1
Insanity
Jem
Wiring monkey
Chaosillumination +1
Pelosh
Stanwax +1
Kevski
Smogthemog
Xntrix
Banthai
Carl b
P1t8ull
soforene
kevin + friend (cant remember his name)
badger1666

I can put some name badges together for everyone. This is of course mainly for my benefit as it makes it easy for me to recognise everyone, then I don't have to look/sound stupid when I can't remember your name.

Jem

[stanwax]

On the subject of name tags, if anybody has kept hold of the lanyards that were provided last time (provided by our yorkshire correspondent from his own pocket), please bring them along to reuse them and hold onto them for future use.

Also bear in mind that I will be going round collecting money to pay for the small cost incurred for the venue. On current numbers this looks like it wil be around a fiver each - Im sure you will agree thats a small amount to pay for a venue of this size for the full day.

See you all there!

Rob