Re: laser hack?

Thanks Rob (and sorry I took so long to reply - only just now noticed
your post) - but I wasn't asking about the software or laser output in
general - what I was hoping to find out was whether these specific
cheap laser devices that I linked to were capable of being driven in
an arbitrary X/Y mode so that they could be hooked up to an
implementation such as Laser/Lazy-mame or anything else (in fact I
have C source code for tailgunner which is what I was really hoping to
run)

It's possible that these device are too special-purpose to be
hackable. They may not have arbitrary control over the direction of
the beam, for example; or it may only be able to do points (stars) but
not lines? I haven't seen one in person, and its a little too much to
take a risk on just ordering one - hence hoping someone had seen them
before...

regards,

G

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Rob Mudryk <rob@lasers.org> wrote:
> I did it back in 2000, and now someone did it again with newer and cheaper
> hardware. Look for LazyMame on youtube.
>
> Original LaserMame:
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3835327867807381175&ei=5xpwSe-KCYrEqQL6z4W7BQ&q=lasermame
>
> New LazyMame:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za-qWzRJDrY444
>
> Graham Toal wrote:
>>
>> Anyone ever looked at something like this to see if it can be driven
>> with X/Y inputs?
>>
>>
>> http://www.focalprice.com/Mini_Green_Laser_Star_Projector_Light_Silver_LP013S_1371.html
>>
>> Could make a cheap vector display if it is hackable to make it steerable.
>>
>> G
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