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Laser Image Projector

by echo_anomie on November 22, 2007

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Intro: Laser Image Projector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

step 1: Materials and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

step 2: Create the Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

step 3: Laser and lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

step 4: The Other End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

step 5: Slide Holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

step 6: Spread the Dot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

step 7: Expanding the Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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Intro: Laser Image Projector

This is basic instructions on how to build a portable image projector that uses a green laser instead of normal light. The laser permits images to be cast great distances,
and doesn't require focusing - it's always in focus.

This particular design is simple in order, more for the sake of keeping my short attention span on track for long enough to actually get this finished!

Let me know if I've missed some detail and I'll correct it.

For more photos see flickr page

Warning: Even a low power laser can cause permanent eye damage . Always wear safety glasses and never point at people, animals, or police helicopters!

Image Notes Image Notes

1. In a dark alley, the projector works quite well. The fence at the end is
roughly 30m away.
1. 100mw green laser
2. concave lens for spreading the beam.
3. Mirror 1. In order to spread the beam enough to cover the slide, we need to
extend the length of the beam enough to enlarge the dot, hence the mirrors
bounce it around until it is large enough. Another concave lens can be used, but
mirrors are cheaper.
4. Dinkle rails and rail mounts. I used these for precise alignment, and for
modularity. For instance, this a 'spare' slot - maybe for a petri dish to project living
organisms enlarged.
5. Mirror 2.
6. Slide holder and silde. For the slides I'm using overhead transparency film for
maximum brightness. Note that colour slides are more dense, and will not be as
bright.
7. Culminating lens. Large enough to cover and re-collate the image.
8. Laser power regulator. Uses mains power, but uses so little power an inverter
is fine. Other laser module may not require the use of an inverter.
9. 24v inverter. Probably overkill. A 12v cheapo inverter would be smaller and
quite sufficient for running this laser.

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 Image Notes
1. 24v nimh pack for the inverter. This is probably overkill, and may get you
arrested under suspicion for acts of terrorism :)

Image Notes
1. Polymorph pellets

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 Image Notes
1. Got wood?
2. Dinkle rail, available from electronic shops. This one was from
http://www.altronics.com.au/

Image Notes Image Notes

1. Laser, pressed against a heat-sink, with thermal paste underneath to help 1. Green laser module.
with heat dissipation.

step 1: Materials and Tools

This method describes absolute basics using lesser quality optics and low power green laser.

This guide shows the set-up for slides made from overhead transparencies.

I will use the Dinkle rails and polymorph pellets.

Materials Required:

Green laser module 10mW+

1 solid length of wood (~90cm)
polymorph pellets (or a willingness to create lens holders from wood, plastic, etc)
concave and convex lens. You can get these from old disposable cameras which camera shops will throw out by the dozens.
Hardware for attaching rail to wood (bolts or screws, depending on method).

Optional Materials:

Dinkle rails, with 72mm rail modules (x4), and the mounting feet (x8), available from http://www.altronics.com.au/ (note, you may find a better way of mounting the
parts, but this one works for me).
perspex or pcb 72mm with for Dinkle mounts.

Tools required:

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 Drill
Jigsaw or handsaw
Hole making bits for drill (if using wood to create lens holders)

NOTE:

I will use the Dinkle rails for this instruction simply because they make alignment so much easier. They also allow a great degree of modularity - being able to swap
different lasers, lens, etc in and out quickly.

Image Notes Image Notes

1. Got wood? 1. Green laser module.
2. Dinkle rail, available from electronic shops. This one was from
http://www.altronics.com.au/

Image Notes
1. Polymorph pellets

step 2: Create the Base

In this method, I'm using a long plank of wood about 90cm long, 15cm wide, and 1cm thick. You pretty much mount it on any long piece of stiff material.

Note: the length will determine how much you can distance the first lens from the slide to allow the 'dot' to expand enough to cover the slide area.

Stiffness is essential. For alignment of the laser is often difficult - unnecessary flex will throw the alignment out too easily.

If using rail, rule a straight line up the centre of the plank, and mount the rail dead centre. You may need to cut the rail in order to fit it on the plank.

If not using a rail, create a centre line very accurately! Any holes drilled must also be very much in line.

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step 3: Laser and lens
Mounting the Laser

Assuming we using a pen type laser pointer we need to mount the laser into a holder which securely hold the laser in position with no movement at all .

Since laser pointers often have a press switch, I will pull them apart and bridge a wire across the switch so that when-ever a battery is attached, it will stay on. Be careful
soldering this while - you can easily dislodge other components and destroy the laser module.

Heat is often the death of lasers! Assuming it'll be on for longer than a few minutes, you may need a form of heat sink to dissipate the heat.

Find an aluminium heat sink from an old computer, and drill a hole big enough to fit the pointer into. Use thermal paste around it.

In this quick and dirty example, I'm merely pressing the laser into the centre groove with a polymorph blob.

To mount using the rail, use two 72mm perpex/pcbs'.

The bottom piece slots into the mounting block, and the other squarely above it, with bolts in each 4 corners.

This allows the vertical level to be raised up and down accurately.

Best to create this 'scaffold' before attaching any of the components to the top perspex/pcb.

Position the laser (in heat-sink) loosely on the top.

Turn the laser on and use a set square aligned along the centre line. Ensure the laser is aligned along the line, and is also exactly parallel with the plank/rail.

Once you are happy with the alignment, mark the position with a pencil.

I'll leave the method of attaching laser to you, but remember you may need to reposition it slightly later, so gluing it down now may cause regret. Some form of bolting
may be better.

Image Notes Image Notes

1. Green laser module. 1. Laser, pressed against a heat-sink, with thermal paste underneath to help with
heat dissipation.

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step 4: The Other End
Once the laser is loosely in place, I like to position the focusing lens that sits at the other end of the rail/plank.

Use the same method of mounting the laser, to mount the focusing lens.

Use the polymorph to seat the lens - keep it centred and horizontal!

Now line up the laser so it passes dead centre through the lens, adjusting both laser and focusing lens until the beam goes through the lens and does not diverge in any
other direction horizontally or vertically.

Once these two are in line, we're almost there! Just two more modules to install.

Image Notes Image Notes

1. This lens is an old 8x lupe (for viewing slides).
2. Badly done polymorph! (but it works to keep the lens in place).
3. One method of using perspex and bolts to raise and lower the lens.
1. Another type of lens, this one is from an old slide projector.
2. Instead of perspex, this one uses two pcb hobby boards and nylon spacers.
3. Polymorph slide holder. Very very unrefined :)
4. Standard 35mm slide mount, but using an overhead transparency image
instead.

step 5: Slide Holder

Obviously you need an image to project.

I suggest using a 35mm slide mount with either a colour slide, or an overhead transparency made to size.

Why? the denser the film, the less light can pass through. If you want to project a maximum distance, an OH image on clear transparency is the best for guerrilla art
projections that require maximum illumination.

Of course, just experiment with different type of film!

As for the laser and lens, make the scaffold for the slide holder.

Using the polymorph create a slide holder simply by placing a blob, and sticking an empty mount in there. Let it set, remove mount, and instant slide holder!

Next, some tweaking of horizontal and vertical positioning of the slide and scaffold is required so that the dot of the laser is precisely centred. Don't move the laser to
centre the dot!

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 Image Notes
1. Another type of lens, this one is from an old slide projector.
2. Instead of perspex, this one uses two pcb hobby boards and nylon spacers.
3. Polymorph slide holder. Very very unrefined :)
4. Standard 35mm slide mount, but using an overhead transparency image instead.

step 6: Spread the Dot

Using a concave lens, we expand the beam enough to cover all or most of the 35x24mm area of the slide. You can use 2 lens to expand the dot in a shorter distance, but
brightness does suffer a little bit for each filter the laser has to pass through.

You can find these lens in old disposable cameras. The basic shape extrudes inwards and expands the beam.

If you want to buy some quality glass lens, then a number of reputable laser shops online can supply these.

As before set the lens within a 'holder' - using the polymorph or other materials. Set up another 'scaffold' and position the lens so that the beam of the laser passes
directly through the centre.

Adjust the size of the expanded dot by moving the slide holder up and down until you're happy. This of course means moving the focusing lens too.

Once all modules are in alignment - you should see some sort of projection - if out of focus, then move the focusing lens back and forth relative to the slide to get the
optimum sharpness.

A useful tool for alignment is lining up the main 'reflected' dot that will invariably occur to the centre of the preceding module element.

Image Notes Image Notes

1. This concave lens is from the view finder of a disposable plastic camera. The 1. Using the rail in the previous picture, polymorph is squeezed about the lens
lens is of low quality but should work fine for rough images. to make a holder.

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 Image Notes Image Notes
1. Trimmed and mounted on pcb, raised via nylon spaces 1. Woo image!
2. Slide

Image Notes
1. laser

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 2. Concave/spreader lens
3. Slide holder and slide
4. Focusing lens (from old slide projector)

step 7: Expanding the Concept

I'm sure I've omitted some important detail, but I hope its relatively clear.

There are so many ways to expand this I'm only going to suggest a few:

Use glass lens for a brighter image (pull apart old cameras for these)
Once confident, try a more powerful laser (100mW+). Remember lasers = dangerous!
Instead of slides, use small TFT screens (such as those 'digital photo-keychains'). You will need a more powerful laser though to get a brighter image. Or rip
apart a digital photo frame. Caution: mobile phone screens (or any screen designed to work in sunlight) will not work nearly as well.
Use spinning/vibrating mirrors (with small motors) to create a form of scanning that potentially give the illusion of a much brighter image via persistence of vision
(quite complex). This link to Starcross42's example demonstrates a technique for creating spiral effects. Check out his other videos as well!.
use biological matter between two glass slide and project the microscopic onto hospital buildings.

Image Notes Image Notes

1. 24v nimh pack for the inverter. This is probably overkill, and may get you
arrested under suspicion for acts of terrorism :)
1. 100mw green laser
2. concave lens for spreading the beam.
3. Mirror 1. In order to spread the beam enough to cover the slide, we need to
extend the length of the beam enough to enlarge the dot, hence the mirrors
bounce it around until it is large enough. Another concave lens can be used, but
mirrors are cheaper.
4. Dinkle rails and rail mounts. I used these for precise alignment, and for
modularity. For instance, this a 'spare' slot - maybe for a petri dish to project living
organisms enlarged.
5. Mirror 2.
6. Slide holder and silde. For the slides I'm using overhead transparency film for
maximum brightness. Note that colour slides are more dense, and will not be as
bright.
7. Culminating lens. Large enough to cover and re-collate the image.
8. Laser power regulator. Uses mains power, but uses so little power an inverter
is fine. Other laser module may not require the use of an inverter.
9. 24v inverter. Probably overkill. A 12v cheapo inverter would be smaller and
quite sufficient for running this laser.

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 Image Notes
1. Hole for lens.
2. Case originally used for photographic equipment. I found this one on Verge
side pick-up / bulk rubbish.

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sergutaya says: Dec 29, 2010. 1:16 PM REPLY

cool !!!
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baruc says: Nov 6, 2010. 1:10 PM REPLY

hi, i like so much your project, but you know what kind of eye protection do I even need? i have some lens and a 30mW green laser. Thx

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 biolethal says: Dec 17, 2010. 7:50 PM REPLY
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m570&_nkw=532nm+goggles

baruc says: Dec 18, 2010. 12:00 AM REPLY

thx, i'll try to find these here in mexico. Thx

tinkerman92 says: Dec 8, 2010. 9:35 AM REPLY

i dont know if someone mentiond this already or not but if u put a dish of living organisms in that they wouldnt b living for long. cool tho

wareneutron says: Nov 19, 2010. 1:55 AM REPLY

now you watch in film viewing

bodhi.evans says: Sep 28, 2009. 7:21 AM REPLY

The pictures in step seven look suspiciously like a bomb...

qmc says: Oct 25, 2010. 8:45 AM REPLY

Don't worry ... as long as you're not a Muslim, you should be alright :/

ZeroXL91 says: Jun 3, 2010. 11:44 AM REPLY

Lol, that's what I was thinking! <.< >.> cool project though eh?

mgysgthath says: Aug 13, 2009. 7:41 PM REPLY

SO essentially you're just piping the beam through the slide, after diffusing it with the lens? I've got a 450mW 532nm laser and I'm thinking of trying this one
out. I've already got some convex lenses. I've got ready access to plenty of LCD screens and I'm wondering what you're thinking? Pipe a video signal
through the LCD and instead of a regular backlight, use the laser? I think with 450mW even with the light absorption, it might work decent.

industrialphreak says: Jan 13, 2010. 1:33 PM REPLY

you know what would be cool...
get a green one, a blue, and a red one all together and have full color laser projection.

JermsG says: Oct 17, 2010. 12:34 PM REPLY

That's exactly what I was thinking too! Already wondering where I can scrounge parts from....

redstarsrbija says: Oct 22, 2010. 5:08 PM REPLY

I reaaaalllly wonder if this would work

mgysgthath says: Oct 17, 2010. 4:43 PM REPLY

Well my RPL-425 is for sale, if anyone wants a 433mW professional green laser.

aixiz_lasers says: Oct 17, 2010. 8:01 PM REPLY

Get a better and lower cost laser at www.aixiz.com

jj.inc says: Oct 17, 2010. 6:57 AM REPLY

I wonder if you stick an LCD in front of this, moving green pictures!

macphreak says: Oct 17, 2010. 6:35 AM REPLY

The laser seems to have very little contact with the heatsink. Not sure it would be very effective. Other than that its a cool little project.

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 electfire says: Aug 22, 2010. 10:46 AM REPLY
yeah the pic 7 seriously looks like it vould go tickey boom... reminds me of the steampunk portable audio amplifer, I made- (it is in a nice wooden case you
can carry)- - I need to post an ible on it sometime...

matstermind says: May 18, 2010. 6:44 PM REPLY

a MUCH cheaper place to get the laser diode would be from dealextreme.com

10mW $7.86

50 mW $16.45

conrad2468 says: May 7, 2010. 4:47 PM REPLY

looks like a bomb!! not gonna lie

dolbowent says: Apr 1, 2010. 10:44 AM REPLY

I am about to buy a projector soon need info
I tried all sort of G120's and did no like the response time. I mean they are great and work fine but bulky and sort of slow. I looked around at a bunch of stuff
coming out of China and they worked well but only for a short period of time then they sort of poop out and die lol...costly!

The reason I started to look at these things is a friend of mine just got me into lasers. I have been an electrical engineer for years and a DJ on the side.

One of my aspirations was to build my own projector. Now I do not have the mula for a new 1/4 or even 1/2 watt diode but I was able to get a Reliant 250M.
It was out of an old Mobolaser unit and I finally got it to run after a few days of pulling my hair out and backwards engineering it to trouble shoot it.

Lol it turned out to be an opto blown.

I will have to beam mix using a 250 mw red but I was able to get my greens and blues now at around 250mw.

I also picked up an old pangolin system. Right now it is in pieces but give me time I will have it worked out soon.

One of my questions is before I start buying stuff for my new / old projector is:

Has anyone used the Skyscan?

I heard it has even a faster smaller mini type of scanner block in it.

I found it here: www.minilaserscaner.com

Please let me know if you have used one of these projectors. I may go that way instead.

Chimeras says: Feb 11, 2010. 4:01 PM REPLY

www.aaxatech.com/products/l1_laser_pico_projector.htm

It looks like aaxa is starting to retail out similar projectors with RGB lasers. Looks like the same general idea, however.

I might buy one after I botch the one i'm trying to make. haha.

saabman says: May 15, 2008. 5:14 PM REPLY

Hi, I working on a project of the same idea. I am using a small picture keychain bought for 20 . Its a ttf one. I did remove the led backplane... It seem to work
well for now. I missing the final stage lens.... I will send Picture and instruction soon.. Any question welcome.

saabman says: May 15, 2008. 6:20 PM REPLY

Here is some picture of my first test Take a look Waiting for your comments Fred

trashpiece says: Jun 24, 2008. 1:00 AM REPLY

finally someone is following up. Very nice.! what are you using to spread the beam? since I am using a 3W laser, I can't begin mounting until I get eye
protection. But what kind of eye protection do I even need?

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 rivetgeek says: Dec 24, 2008. 12:56 PM REPLY
if you are using a 3W laser...you really shouldn't be messing around with it until you understand wavelength cancellation and safety procedures.
That laser is powerful enough to blind you instantly.

trashpiece says: Dec 24, 2008. 2:19 PM REPLY

Too late...I almost burned down my garage! Still have my eyes, though. I decided upon setting up a video box to work on this thing. For the
laser projector I used an old monochrome lcd overhead projector panel with a vga controller. I spread the beam with a large polished ball
bearing and re-focused the light using a large lens from an old crt projector. I was just tweaking it when I became homeless, and lost my job.
5 months later, I have put my life back together, and i plan to begin working on it again in january.

milsorgen says: Jan 26, 2010. 6:49 PM REPLY

lolwut

Bort says: Feb 28, 2009. 12:46 PM REPLY

where do I got this "focusing lense"

fernxtwo says: Jan 25, 2010. 3:41 PM REPLY

you can get them from and old slide projector. easy obtainable for 5-10 $

Ex Marine says: Dec 8, 2009. 6:36 AM REPLY

nice instructable but i need some help
so i followed kipkays tutorial on lasers and get a lser out of a DVD drive
but instead of the laser being focused into one beam it acts as a spread beam (like a torch) is this because it doesn't have a lens?

so also is this bad or does it just mean there is no need for the convex lens

jetse says: Dec 19, 2009. 10:14 AM REPLY

hi,
you're right about the laser having no lens and not needing one.

but you can consider getting a convex lens and placing this one closer to the laser than the focal length (so if the focal length is 5cm keep the the lens no
further then 5 cm, otherwise you're image gets up side down)
'
cause when you put an convex lens in front of it you can control the beam spread. how closer to focal point how smaller the beam spread is.

greetings jetse

dlinke says: Sep 2, 2009. 5:11 PM REPLY

just an idea... and a very lo tec one... if you could set up a disc transparency with say 25 frames of a clip on the outer border of it. make it spin with a little
handle or even an electrical motor taken from a toy and make the frames pass through the "amplification chamber" of the projector you could project an
animation without the lcd. i just imagined a very cheap way to avoid breaking a cellphone...

mateoplummer says: Mar 27, 2008. 3:50 AM REPLY

Has anyone tried it with a TFT screen? I'm confused to how it would work, I thought TFT screens aren't translucent, or are they translucent enough for a
powerful laser to pass through? what would the image quality be like? thanks

xeniczone says: Jul 1, 2008. 7:17 PM REPLY

It would possibly be possible to do with a TFT screen but have some problems. The TFT screen is indeed transparent. But the screen absorbs at least
50% of the light so to do it with this would be too dim. An idea would be to use either DLP or maybe Plasma. Plasma wouldn't absorb as much of the light
but the image quality wouldn't be as good and they don't make plasmas that small. But there is nothing stopping you from trying. A Laser projector would
be noval as you wouldn't have to focus it and could project the image extremely long distances. But you will have to face some difficulties like There
would need 3 LCD screens and 3 Lasers that would all have to be focused into one image. Using a R G B set up.

adventuresinparadise says: May 2, 2009. 12:33 PM REPLY

I'm not certain Plasma would work, plasma works literally by using exited gas to emit UV light which in turn makes coloured phosphorus glow. They
don't rely on a back-lit white sheet for illumination like TFT screens so I doubt a Laser would be able to pass through it in any meaningful way.

bethehammer says: Jul 12, 2008. 9:46 PM REPLY

I see a lot of old video projectors on ebay pretty cheap. Of course most need a new lamp which runs about $300+ I wonder if you could replace the
lamp assembly with a laser set up like this... even at 100mW laser.. it would still use less power than the 150 to 300W lamps... and if your application
is monochrome (like projecting a ghostly talking face on a white statue...) Any thoughts on if that would work???

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 JermsG says: Oct 17, 2010. 12:38 PM REPLY
I'm loving the idea of a talking statue right now.
Don't see why that wouldn't work, as long as you don't mind adding a little extra bulk to the setup.

xeniczone says: Jul 13, 2008. 9:56 PM REPLY

To do it you would probably need a DLP projector because I don't think LCD would be bright enough, by the time you got a laser bright enough it
would be too bright and start burning holes in stuff you project it on, lol. Just as a guy you would need 3 Lasers and a DLP projector, then you
would need to sync the dlp with the lasers to turn on and off the right color laser at the right time. Thats the hard part, After you get done it might
work but I wouldn't think it's worth it. So no probably not. Again even if you do get it all to work most projectors have lamps that are
20,000lumens, lasers aren't that bright...

fokusco says: Feb 5, 2010. 3:22 AM REPLY

20,000 lumens!!!!! Sign me up for a projector like that! My DLP is rated at 1,800... i sucks

xeniczone says: Feb 7, 2010. 4:42 PM REPLY

Actually 20,000 is more like a metal halide. I think most commercial projector, (the small business projector), are only 5000 lumens. The
1800 rating is the amount of light the makes it out the lens.

mackintoshlinessless says: Mar 1, 2009. 10:24 PM REPLY

sorry at dealextreme.com

mackintoshlinessless says: Mar 1, 2009. 10:23 PM REPLY

dude instead of paying 100$ at jaycar buy the exact same one for 25$ australian

Bort says: Feb 28, 2009. 12:48 PM REPLY

make me one assembly without the laser and i buy it 50 dollars

Bort says: Feb 28, 2009. 12:38 PM REPLY

wtf is a polymorf pallet?

mackintoshlinessless says: Feb 12, 2009. 9:07 PM REPLY

this looks so cool and i am definately going to make one

Deepflight says: Mar 7, 2008. 9:17 PM REPLY

Echo, I noticed you started with a 10mW laser but the finished project was a 100mW laser. Did the 10mW work.

echo_anomie says: Mar 8, 2008. 5:41 AM REPLY

If you go to step six, one of the images project is with the 10mw laser. The case laser is there more as an example of alternatives.

daves750gsxr says: Jan 15, 2009. 10:09 AM REPLY

where did you find the concave lens to project or widen the laser beam? how far does your case project images(the one with 100mw laser)? And if I
want it to project far would I need multiple concave lens- or a combination of concave, double concave, or convex lens?

lieuwe says: Nov 17, 2008. 8:53 AM REPLY

what if you would use a laser strong enough to burn wood and the "scan" across the image, you could burn a image into wood/paper/whatever

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