Re: laser hack?

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Zonn <mlists@zonn.com> wrote:
> Hi Graham,
>
> The device you pointed to looks like it just shines a laser through a piece
> of plastic, that's been designed to make a star pattern, like the laser
> pointers that come with lenses for arrows, etc.
>
> The lens (or a simple mirror) could be moved slowly around the room for the
> effect they describe.
>
> The other type of laser toys that display spirograph type of patterns use
> two spinning mirrors on a couple of DC motors.
>
> There are also displays that bounce a laser of a mirror on a speaker that
> changes patterns as music plays.
>
> None of them can be used to display X/Y patterns.
>
> -Zonn

That's the sort of thing I was afraid of.

Say, what's the latest with the ZVG? Any advances in the software in
the last few years? Last time I used it, it was a pretty complex
process involving cross-compiling for DOS...

Graham
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Received on Wed Feb 4 11:37:54 2009