RGB Laser Projector in the Arcade
Here's a video of my RGB laser projector running in my arcade. It plays animation files off an SD card, which I've modified to be mostly arcade related. The projector is from Spencer's, called the 3D Laser Party Light: http://www.spencersonline.com/product/ss-3d-laser-party-light/ . It's (currently) $169, and comes with built-in animations, but if you pop the back off the case, you can access the SD card and have some real fun. ;-) As is typical for me, I made some modifications to make it better. I made a post about this on a laser forum, which has accumulated quite a bit of technical information, and detailed my modifications, here: http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/showthread.php/18298-Laser-Projector-%28Red-Green-Purple%29-quot-Laser-3D-Party-Light-quot-from-Spencer-s . The frames were mostly exported from MAME by a custom build I made, which were then converted to the correct format by LaserBoy. I also converted some bitmaps using bmp2ild. Some animations were pulled from other shows scattered around the internet as well. Sorry for the low quality of the video... it's difficult to take a good video in the first place, since the lasers have such high contrast in the dark, and the refresh isn't consistent on all frames. And once all the compression and youtube "optimization" is done, it comes out looking like this. :-P It looks really cool in person (like an extremely large vector monitor on the wall). :-)
Here's a video of my RGB laser projector running in my arcade. It plays animation files off an SD card, which I've modified to be mostly arcade related. The projector is from Spencer's, called the 3D Laser Party Light: http://www.spencersonline.com/product/ss-3d-laser-party-light/ . It's (currently) $169, and comes with built-in animations, but if you pop the back off the case, you can access the SD card and have some real fun. ;-) As is typical for me, I made some modifications to make it better. I made a post about this on a laser forum, which has accumulated quite a bit of technical information, and detailed my modifications, here: http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/showthread.php/18298-Laser-Projector-%28Red-Green-Purple%29-quot-Laser-3D-Party-Light-quot-from-Spencer-s . The frames were mostly exported from MAME by a custom build I made, which were then converted to the correct format by LaserBoy. I also converted some bitmaps using bmp2ild. Some animations were pulled from other shows scattered around the internet as well. Sorry for the low quality of the video... it's difficult to take a good video in the first place, since the lasers have such high contrast in the dark, and the refresh isn't consistent on all frames. And once all the compression and youtube "optimization" is done, it comes out looking like this. :-P It looks really cool in person (like an extremely large vector monitor on the wall). :-)